·DICKINSON ALUMNUS.

I Vol. 32, N~ 3 I I FEBRUARY, 1955 11 ~be i.&ickinson a1umnus Published Quarterly for the Alumni of Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law Editor ------Gilbert Malcolm, '15, '17L Associate Editors - Dean M. Hoffman, '02, Roger H. Steck, '26

ALUMNI COUNCIL Class of 1955 Class of 1956 Class of 1957 Dr. E. Roger Samuel, ·10 Mrs. Helen W. Smethurst, '25 Hyman Goldstein, '15 Francis Esto! Simmons, '23 Winfield C. Cook, '32 C. Wendell Holmes, '21 Mrs. Helen D. Gallagher. '26 Joseph G. Hlldenberger, '33 Mrs. Jeanne W. Meade, '33 H. Monroe Ridgely, '26 Judge Charles F. Greevy, '35 Dr. Edward c. Raffens• Dorothy H. Hoy, '41 Dr. R. Edward Steele, '35 perger, '36 Denton B. Ashway. Carl F. Skinner, Dr. Weir L. King, '46 Class of 1952 Class of 1953 William E. Woodside. Class of 1954 GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF DICKINSON COLLEGE President C. Wendell Holmes Secretary Mrs. Helen D. Gallagher Vice-President H. Monroe Ridgely Treasurer Hyman Goldstein ··c)t==~==-======111(>·· TABLE OF CONTENTS

To Distribute New Alumni Directory in May . 1 There Are Now 1,400 Lifers-Are You One? 2 More Gifts Come To Alumni Annual Giving Fund . 4 Adopt Plans for New Methodist Church ... 5 Professor Bishop Dies After Operation 7 Joins Harding College Faculty in Political Science . 8 Receives Top Appointment in Near East . 9 Wins Acclaim As Mr. Blue Ballot in Illinois . 10 Becomes Pennsylvania's Secretary of Banking 12 Appointed Deputy Secretary of Pennsylvania 13 Maryland Senator Becomes Associate Judge 14 Becomes Speaker of New Jersey Assembly 15 Dickinson-A Doctor's College . 16 Personals ...... 24 Obituaries 29

II(>·· Life Membership $40. May be paid in two installments of $20 each, six months apart or in $10 installments. Alumni dues $2.00 per year including $1.00 for one year's sub• scription to the magazine. All communications should be addressed to The Dickinson Alumnus, West College, Carlisle, Pa. "Entered as second class matter May 23, 1923, at the post office at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879."

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To Distribute New Alumni Directory in May

HE first. e~ition_ of a Directory of velope send it in-or write a letter. T living Dickinsonians to be published Write THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS, since 1948 will be mailed as Part II of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. the May number of THE DICKINSON If the reader knows that his or her ALUMNUS. It will be mailed to Life address will be changed by June 1955 Members and those who have paid their or soon thereafter send in that informa• annual or class dues in the General tion so rhat the new address can be listed. Alumni Association. Any ladies planning to be married should The new directory will list the names sendi their new names and addresses for and known addresses of all living alumni inclusion in the directory and also for by classes and also those of students now the Personal columns of the magazine. The Trustees of the College will pay in college. By including the present for the publication of the directory students, the directory will be of greater though the General Alumni Association value now and for a longer time than through the Alumni Council has pledged was true of earlier editions. itself to repay the Trustees. While no . There will also be a geographical list• charge will be made to paid up members i?g. of al~ na.11:'.es and an alphabetical of the General Alumni Association a listing which will serve as an index to statement will be sent with each directory th_e cl_ass lists. The alphabetical listing asking for a contribution of at least $2 will give the last name, initials and class or as much more as a person will give of each individual. to meet this great cost. Unlike earlier directories, there will be At the present time, the income from no segregation of graduates and non• the Lemuel Towers Life Membership graduates. There will be no indication in Fund and the payments of annual and the volume to show whether a person class dues are insufficient to meet all the listed is a graduate or not. costs of printing THE DICKINSON Physically the new book will closely ALUMNUS. The Trustees have included resemble the 1948 edition with probably a sum in the annual budget of the Col• about 280 pages and containing approxi• lege to meet these needs. It is therefore mately 8,500 names. It will be on white clear that every one who receives a direc• paper using black ink and with a sturdy tory should be quick to, pay his or her red heavy stock cover. share to meet these additional costs. Nearly all of the copy has gone to the When the last directory was printed in printer and is now being set in type. 1948, the General Alumni Association Changes in addresses will be made to agreed to repay the Truste~s and ~he the last moment before printing. If the same plan is being followed. 111 financing the 1955 edition. That directory was address to which this number of THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS was mailed to the mailed without asking for any contribu• tions and in time the Trustees were re• reader is incorrect, make the correction paid. The Alumni Council Committee, on the envelope in which the magazine headed by Joseph G. Hilderrberger, '33, was received and using the address on the upper left hand corner of the en- which sponsored the new edition solicits 4 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

"\ More Gifts Come to Alumni Annual Giving Fund IFTS to the Alumni Annual Giving "No gift is too small-and no gift is G Fund to February 1 totalled $13,- too large." 825.90, a gain of about $9,000 since "My hope is that every Dickinsonian the publication of the December num• will send in his own contribution as ber of THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS. soon as possible, and help in getting That issue reported a total of $4,986 gifts from others" is the appeal of to December 10, 1954. J. Milton Davidson, '33, General Chair• The total to February 1 is about man of the Alumni Annual Giving $1,000 more than was reached on the Fund. He also points to the fact that the college enrollment this year is about same date last year when the figure was $12,912.55. The final total in last year's 30 below last year's totals creating a greater need for help from the alumni campaign was $47,716.42. There is and friends of the college. every need to surpass that figure in this year's effort which will continue to Last year 1,253 gave a total of June 30. $41,616.06. This year's campaign seeks many more contributors and more money Class Agents will begin mailing their than ever before in the history of the letters this month and several have fund. If you haven't sent your annual gotten their messages into the mails. gift-do it now! Some plan to send letters to all their classmates whether they have already given to the fund or not. Dickinson in GM Program President William W. Edel has been Many alumni have endorsed the ac• notified that Dickinson College is one tion of the Alumni Council in estab• of the 107 colleges in 38 states to re• lishing the "One Hundred Club" and ceive a grant under the recently an• "The Faithful Fifties," by sending their nounced $2,000,000 annual program of checks either for $100 or $50. Some General Motors. have sent gifts in these or larger amounts but have said they do not wish their The first 350 students under the names published as members of either scholarship program will enroll as fresh• the "One Hundred Club" or "The man in the academic year starting next Faithful Fifties." Such requests will be September. When the program is in full observed. operation, 1,400 students and 306 col• leges and universities will be receiving There is a gain among alumni to benefits. send $1 a year or some multiple of that An award under the scholarship phase figure for each year out of college. of the GM program will range up to Class Agents of the later classes par• $2,000 annually. The college is given a ticularly like this plan and will seek to free hand in choosing students of high secure many such donors. Younger scholastic ability and leadership potential alumni should realize that a gifr of $1 to receive the awards. When the plan is will put the donor's name in 'the list in full operation there will be four GM of contributors in the final report next scholarship holders in college at one July in the same sized type as a gift time. of $1,000 would do. In addition to the scholarship award, One of the needs of the annual giv• private colleges and universities will re• ing program is to greatly increase the ceive grants-in-aid equivalent on the number of contributors. Every Dickin• average to some $500 to $800 annually sonian should give remembering that per student. THE DICKINSON AI.;UMNUS 5 Adopt Plans for New Methodist Church

CHURCH TO BE BUILT ON RUSH CAMPUS

LANS for the new Methodist Church new dormitory for men, now under con• P to replace the Allison Memorial struction along Mooreland A venue near Church, which was completely destroyed High Street. by fire in. Januarr of last year, have Attorneys are now preparing deeds been adopted. It rs probable that con• for the necessary exchange parcels of struction will begin in the summer. land between the Trustees of the College The new edifice will be built in the and the officialsof the church. When this southwest part of the Benjamin Rush transfer is effected the demolition of the Campus near Mooreland Avenue. It will ruins of the former church structure will be to the south of Morgan Hall, the begin. The College will also make use 6 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS of the church's former parish house for In the southern wing on the first floor class room purposes. provision is mad!e for the minister's study The new building will be of native and offices, a parlor and the rooms of limestone and of sufficient size to ac• the primary department and an adult commodate the student body of the Col• class room. In this same part on the third lege for chapel purposes. In style it will floor will be the junior, intermediate and conform to the architectural pattern of senior class rooms of the Sunday School, the College. In the nave and balcony a total of fifteen classrooms in all. there will be a seating capacity for about Estimates secured for the new Church 750. call for a building fund of $750,000 The plans provide for a Fellowship which includes the new organ and new Hall with kitchen and dining facilities furnishings. on the ground floor where there will also In building the Church on the Ben• be a small Chapel to seat about 95 per• jamin Rush Campus there will be ample sons. The nursery and kindergarten areas for automobile parking off the rooms will also be on that floor. streets. Called to Pastorate of Large Congregational Church HE Rev. Kenneth Clinton, '37, he did administrative work in a large T pastor of the First Parish Congrega• church program under the guidance of tional Church, Wakefield, Mass., for the Dr. Boynton Merrill, one of the leaders past five years was called to the 2,850 of the denomination. In September 1949 membership Hope Congregational Church he became minister of the Wakefield in Springfield, Mass., on February 1. church. The Springfield Church has more than Besides the work of his parish, he has double the membership of the Wakefield done considera:ble lecturing and he is parish, a large staff, an outstanding youth the author of "Let's Read the Bible," program, and a plant which includes a published by Macmillan Company in large parish house and gymnasium. 1950, which has been widely acclaimed. While at Wakefield, the Rev. Mr. In July 1934, he married Miss Jean Clinton carried out a $200,000 addition Folwell of Philadelphia. They have four and modernization program which in• children, David, 16; Desmond, 14; cluded the completion and dedication of Dennis, 11, and Katrina, 8. Covell Chapel. Born in Cookstown, Ireland, in 1911 he went to Philadelphia in 1925 where his father, also a Congregational minister, With Kessler Institute has long been active. He graduated from Dr. Earl F. Hoerner, '48, has been Dickinson College in 193 7 and from the named associate medical director of the Andover-Newton Theological Seminary Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in in 1940, when he was ordained. He has West Orange, N. J. He works under done graduate work at Boston University the internationally known physician, Dr. and the Union Theological Seminary. Henry H. Kessler, who is a pioneer in In 1941 he was called to the Union die field of physical restoration and re• Church, West Palm Beach, Fla., where habilitation. he served five years and succeeded in Dr. Hoerner is also the author of a rejuvenating a church that was about paper "Altered Vasomotor Changes ready to dose its doors. He then went to (Peripheral) in Hemiplegias" · which the First Congregational Church, Colum• was published m the October issue of bus, 0., in 1946 as associate pastor. There Angiology. THE DICKINSON AIJUMNUS 7 Professor Bishop Dies After Operation R. ARTHUR VAUGHAN BISHOP, D chairman of the department of classical languages and literature at the college for a quarter century, died un• expectedly January 6 in Carlisle Hospital where he underwent an emergency ap• pendectomy the day before. He had rallied strongly after the operation only to be seized with a heart attack the next morning and succumbed 111 a few minutes. Dr. Bishop retired from the faculty last June as A. J. Clark Professor Emeritus but at the request of the Col• lege resumed teaching last Fall on a lightened schedule to help ease the bur• den on the department resulting from unexpected heavy elections of Latin. He enjoyed usual health until the sudden ARTHUR V. BISHOP attack of appendicitis a day before his death. year. In 1940 he was named first occupant The funeral service in the Second of the A. J. Clark Chair of Classical Presbyterian Church was conducted· by languages and literature. President Edel and the Rev. Charles He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Davis, the minister, and was attended the Classical Association of the Atlantic by the faculty and many students and States and the Philological Association. by town friends of Dr. Bishop. Burial At the time of his death he was clerk took place in IvY' Hill Cemetery, Alex• of the Session of the Second Presbyterian andria, Va. Church, in Carlisle, where he also had Dr. Bishop was gentle in speech and been a trustee and teacher of the Men's manner and lived quietly on a high Bible Class. Christian plane. He was devoted to the Dr. Bishop is survived by his wife, College, and was respected on the campus the former Ellen T. Hoffman, whom he for his earnest scholarship and deep con• married in 1914, and by a brother, John cern for the welfare of his students. Lucas Bishop, of Riner, Va. He was born in Riner, Va., on March 28, 1883, and graduated at Virginia Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. degree Officers All Dickinsonians in 1906. He obtained both a master's degree and his Ph.D. at the University All the newly elected officers of the of Virginia where he taught during Cumberland County Bar Association are summer sessions from 1912 to 1924. Dickinsonians. Dr. Bishop was professor of Latin The new officers are George M. and! Greek at Hollins College, in Vir• Houck, '33, '351, of Mechanicsburg, ginia, from 1913 until 1923 when he president; Russell B. Updegraff, '25, joined the faculty of Georgetown Col• '291, of New Cumberland, vice presi• lege, in Kentucky. He came to Dickinson dent; Harold S. Irwin, Jr., '23, '251, from Georgetown in 1928 and was made Carlisle, secretary, and Kenneth W. chairman of his department the next Hess, '471, Boiling Springs, treasurer. 8 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Joins Harding College Faculty in Political Science R. RICHARD F. STAAR, '48, be• D gan an appointment in the fall at Harding College, Searcy, Ark. as associ• ate professor and chairman of the De• partment of Political Science. The courses and seminars for which he is re• sponsible all have an international em• phasis. They are International Relations; Organization, Law and Comparative European Government. Following his graduation from the college in 1948, he was a University Fellow at Yale and received his M.A. degree there with honors in Inter• national Relations in 1949. He immedi• ately went to work for the Federal Government, beginning as a junior an• alyst on the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe. He was able to rise to the rank R1ICHARD F. STAAR of intelligence research specialist and Section Chief in the Department of State. Raised To Full Professorship In the meanwhile, he wrote his Ph.D. When he returned from a year's leave dissertation for the University of Michi• of absence spent in Europe, Dr. J. Murray gan in absentia and worked for the Barbour, '19, received a promotion to government simultaneously on a full• a full professorship at Michigan State time basis. It took him two years to College, where he has been a member complete his thesis on "The Political of the faculty since 1939. He is in the Framework of Communist Poland." He department of music. received his doctorate in February 1954. Michigan State is celebrating its one Columbia University has accepted his hundredth anniversary this year with cere• first article "American Slavic and East monies commemorating the founding on European Review" for publication and February 12 to open the observance. Dr. he has two others in progress. He also Barbour was the Dickinson delegate on plans to write a textbook on Inter• this occasion. national Relations. Dr. Staar was born in Warsaw, Poland Whi1le in Europe he attended operas on January 10, 1923. He married the and concerts in Austria and Germany, former Jadwiga M. Ochota at Wyan• heard Parsifal at Bayreuth, made a trip dotte, Mich. on March 28, 1950. They to Spain and Morocco and attended have two daughters, Monica, born April several events at the Edinburgh Festival. 18, 1951, and Christina, born November He reports an amusing and interesting 25, 1952. detail in a letter saying: "I put my A Methodist, he is a member of money in a savings bank in Vienna. To Kappa Sigma fraternity and Phi Kappa draw it out I had to write an Erlosung• Phi for excellence in scholarship at the swort, a secret word that would not be University of Michigan. He is also the known to a person who might find or author of "Political Administration of steel my bankbook. So I picked 'Dickin• the Red Army" which was published son' and! never had any trouble in get• by the U. S. Army. ting cash. An Open sesame! indeed." THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 9 Receives Top Appointment in Near East WO MONTHS after he returned T from an important assignment with the Department of State in Baghdad, Dr. Paul E. Smith, '30, received one of the top government appointments in the Near East andi left on November 15 for the American. Embassy, Beirut, Lebanon. He was appointed Regional Training Officer for the Near East and African Division of the Foreign Operations Ad• ministration, which is headed by the Honorable Harold E. Stassen. His work will be to combat the forces of Com• munism in the Near East and Africa through the fields of education and will carry him into Libia, Ethiopia, Jordan and South Africa. Since his entry into government offices PAUL E. SMITH in 1943, Dr. Smith has held a number of important posts at home and abroad. Born in Altoona, he graduated from In September he returned from two years the· high school there and received his service in the American Embassy at A.B. from the college in 1930. Many Baghdad. Dickinsonians will remember him as one Following his graduation from the col• of the star players of the basketball team. lege in 1930, he taught in Williamsport He received his M.A. from American Dickinson Seminary and Junior College University in 1935 and a Ph.D. from until 1934, when he became an instructor Catholic University in 1942. A Meth• in English at American University. After odist, he is a member of Phi Ka_epa Psi, five years there, he held a similar position Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Delta at the University of Maryland when he Kappa. resigned to become associated with the Dr. Smith married Lucille M. Black• U. S. Office of Education. He served as a well, '32, and they have two sons, Paul specialist in the exchange of students and E., Jr., born February 11, 1942, and teachers in. the division of Inter-American Charles M., born in December, 1946. Educational Relations. Then in 1948 he became assistant director of the Division of International Educational Relations and in 1951 he was named Director of In Sclerosis Work the International Educational Relations DeHaven Woodcock, '33, '36L, was Programs. recently placed in charge of a 12 state His next field of endeavor brought him area for the National Multiple Sclerosis considerable prominence when from Society, with field headquarters in Chi• 1945 until 1952, he was chairman of the cago, Ill. U. S. committee on the interchange of He has moved from Altoona to 3 314 teachers in the United Kingdom and the South Clinton Ave., Berwyn, Ill., where United States. During four of those he resides with his wife, the former years, he was also a member of the U. S. Miss Jean McGee. They were married National Committee on Foreign Students. in Altoona on July 31, 1952. 10 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Wins Acclaim As Mr. Blue Ballot in Illinois APPED as one of the "Five Fore• C most Chicagoans of '54" and the top guest of the Governor at a testimonial dinner last month, Samuel W. Witwer, Jr., '30, attorney and trustee of the College, won the plaudits of all news• paper editors, civic and religious 'leaders and many groups for his tireless work in a victorious election in Illinois last November. He was guest of honor on January 13 at a civic testimonial dinner at the Palmer House in Chicago which was co-chair• maned by Governor Stratton and former Governor, Adlai Stevenson. The January 1955 issue of Chicago named Mr. Witwer as one of the "Five Foremost Chicagoans of '54" for his work as chairman of the Illinois Com• mittee for Constitutional Revision. Its SAMUEL W. WITWER, JR. citation read "The city and its suburbs gained new strength in Springfield with practice and family to work for modern• the victory last November of the state ization of the 1870 state constitution." reapportionment amendment. Its passage Much earlier Illinois newspapers had promises restoration o~ fair. repr~se?ta• christened him "Mr. Constitutional Re• tion in the legislature (including elimina• vision" for his work in 1950 when the tion of the rotten boroughs of the West "Gateway Amendment" was approved by Side bloc) that has been denied to Cook the voters. This opened the door for the county districts for more than half a "Blue Ballot" reapportionment amend• century. Credit for the success of the re• ment approved by the voters last No• a:pportionment measure is shared by hun• vember and which gave him his new dreds of citizens who worked in its sup• name "Mr. Blue Ballot." These successes port, but a large proportion of that credit came after sporadic efforts were made is due Samuel W. Witwer, Jr., chairman through the years to break constitutional of the Illinois Committee for Constitu• barriers. "Mr. Blue Ballot" has been tional Revision, which conducted the given the credit of masterminding the campaign for adoption of the proposal." unifying strategy which led to victory. "Witwer, a 46-year-old Chicago lawyer The need for reform was pictured in and resident of Riverside," the citation a typical case where legislators in some continues "gave the campaign the organi• downstate rural areas represented about zation and experienced direction neces• one-twentieth of the number of people sary to emphasize the importance of re• contained in the largest Chicago legis• apportionment as a side issue in the elec• lative district. The change restores a legis• tion. When the ballots were tallied, the lative balance between Chicago and the amendment 'had received a 10 to 1 vote downstate regions for the first time since in the county. The campaign was the 1901. To Mr. Blue Ballot it means suc• latest in an eight-year period during cess after eight years of devoted work which Witwer, who shuns the label of for the people of Illinois. reformer, often had forsaken his law Born in Pueblo, Col., on July 1, 1908, THE DICKINSON AI.;UMNUS 11

Mr. Blue Ballot is the son of a steel mill of Gary. They have twin sons, Michael cinder snapper. He moved to Gary, Ind., and Samuel III, aged 13; a daughter, with his family in 1909 to make his boy• Carole Ann, who is 9 and another son hood home in the first structure ever David, aged 5 years. They live in a 75- erected in that mill city. Later the family year-old Victorian house in suburban moved to Cumberland, Md., where he Riverside. attended high school. Active in the affairs of the Methodist Graduating from the College in 1930, Church and a member of Union League he went on to Harvard Law School and and Sigma Chi Fraternity, he is a Trustee following his graduation there in 1933 of the College and of Garrett Theological went to Chicago to become associated Seminary. He is a Life Member of the with the law firm which is now "Winkin• General Alumni Association and a past son, Witwer & Moran." president of the Dickinson Club of He married the former Ethyl Wilkins Chicago. Guides Work For Mentally Retarded N THE executive secretary of the tims of cerebral palsy and 300 perma• A Philadelphia chapter of the Penn• nent cripples from polio. sylvania Association for Retarded Chil• One of the tragedies of mental re• dren, Inc., Sarah L Rowe, '34, is in the tardation is that families have tended forefront of a great new nation-wide to be ashamed of such children and to movement that seeks to obtain for hide them. Miss Rowe's group seeks to mental retardation the same public en• combat this tendency and go help par• lightenment and support that has been ents. work together for their handicapped achieved for infantile paralysis, cerebral children and to give them faith. palsy, rheumatic fever and the like. In the first nation-wide campaign in behalf of the mentally retarded, the Philade1phia chapter raised $100,000 Form Law Partnership last Thanksgiving season. This is being The law firm of Myers and Myers, of used to promote research in discovering Lemoyne and Carlisle, and James D. preventive measures against retardation, Flower, '42, have announced the forma• to establish more residence schools. for tion of a partnership for the general retarded children who need continuing practice of law under the name of care, to provide vocational rehabilitation Myers, Myers & Flower. for those who can be helped by such The firm of Myers and Myers was training and to expand facilities for made up of John E. Myers, '12, Robert parent counseling. In her work, Miss L. Myers, Jr., '17, Thomas I. Myers, Rowe coordinates all of the activities '38 and Robert L. Myers Ill, with its of the chapter, a pioneer in the PARC. principal office in the Lemoyne Trust The gospel of the movement is that Building, Lemoyne, Pa. The firm also retarded children can be helped. Most had offices in Carlisle. The new firm retarded children are born to normal will continue in the Lemoyne offices and people, even the most enlightened the Carlisle offices are now at 32 W. people, and with a .hist?ry of ne~er having had such a child m the family. High St. The organization's statistics show that Robert L. Myers, Jr., the senior part• for every 100,000 population there are ner, was named Pennsylvania's Secre• 3 000 retardation cases compared with tary of Banking by Governor George 700 rheumatic heart sufferers, 350 vie- M. Leader last month. 12 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Becomes Pennsylvania's Secretary of Banking OBERT L. MYERS, JR., '17, '21L, R of Camp HiH, Pa., was named Sec• retary of Banking in the Cabinet of Governor George M. Leader, of Penn• sylvania, last month. The new secretary held other Capitol Hill posts during the term of former Governor George H. Earle. He was Deputy Attorney General of Pennsyl• vania representing the Department of Banking in 1935. Then in 1936 he was Secretary to Governor Earle and in 1937- 38 he was chairman of the Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Board of Review. A former member of the faculty of the Law School, he has had a good bit of banking experience. He was professor of Common Pleas Practice at the Dickin• ROBERT L. MYERS, JR. son Law School from 1923 to 1931. His, experience in banking springs first 1897, he graduated from the college with from the fact that his father, the late Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1917 and Robert Lee Myers, was the founder of receivedl the A.M. and LL.B. degrees the Cumberland Valley Bank in 1905, when he graduated from the Dickinson which was reorganized as the Lemoyne School of Law in 1921. In World War Trust Co. in 1910. He is a former vice I he served with the Signal Corps of president, director and counsel of the the Army. For a year following his Trust Co. and a former counsel of the graduation from the college he was in• West Shore Building and Loan Associa• strnctor in Science and coach of athletics tion of Lemoyne, Pa. at Shippensburg State Teachers College. He was co-author with the late Judge He married the former Miss Evelyn Fred S. Reese of the second revised and Metnzer, of Carlisle, and they have three en:larged edition of Patton's Pennsylvania sons and a daughter, Robert 1. Myers, Common Pleas Practice. He has also been III, Edward H. Myers, Philip N. Myers a contributor to law reviews and legal and Vivginia E. Myers. journals. A Mason, a trustee of the Camp Hill Presbyterian Church, and a member of Named to Office S. A. E. fraternity, he was president of Yates Catlin, '19, was elected president the Woodrow Wilson Foundation of of t~e National Capital Forge, American Cumberland County in 1952 and that Public Relations Association, at the an• same year he served as president of the nual me~ting of that professional group Cumberland County Bar Association. He m Washmgton, D. C. He is treasurer of is als~ a_ member of the Pennsylvania Bar the national organization. Association. He is a member of the Bar Catlin is public relations director of of Cu:mberland County, the Pennsylvania The American Waterways Operators, Supenor and Supreme Courts and the Inc., the _national association of the barge Supreme Court of the United States. and towing vessel mdustry, with head• Born at Camp Hill on September 15, quarters in Washington, D. C. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 13 Appointed Deputy Secretary of Pennsylvania ENRY E. HARNER, '29, '31L, H Lawyer of Harrisburg, Pa., was named Deputy Secretary to the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania early this month. He was chairman of Governor George M. Leader's inaugural committee and will receive an annual salary of $10,260 in the deputyship. The new deputy has been active in the Democratic organization in Harris• burg for some years. He was a former candidate for district attorney. In 1942 he was named assistant United States Attorney and in 1952 a Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States. Upon his graduation from the Law School in 1931, he was admitted to prac• tice in the courts of Pennsylvania and HENRY 'E. HARNER later to the United States Federal Court for the Middle Pennsylvania district. net in handling policy matters relating Born in York, Pa., on September 28, to the vast department she heads. 1907, he graduated from the York High McCamant began his Government School and then from the college in career in 1940 with the Department of 1929 andl the Law School in 1931. Commerce's Census Bureau. He trans• A Lutheran, he is a member of Phi ferred in 1941 to the Department of the Ka:ppa Psi fraternity and the Exchange Navy where he held various assignments Club of Harrisburg. in personnel management and as a man• On May 30, 1928, he married Anna power specialist in military planning May Bell, '30, the daughter of J. Harris until assignment last June to Secretary Bell, '03. They have four children: Mrs. Hobby's staff. He spent three years in Barbara Ann Harner Ashby, Henry E., the Navy during Wor1d War II. Jr., Mrs. Elizabeth May Brooks and Michaele Bell Harner. Born in Huntingdon, Pa., McCamant entered Dickinson in 1934 from Altoona (Pa.) High School and later studied at the University of Hawaii, American Receives Promotion University, in Washington, D. C., Se• attle College and the University of William C. McCamant, '38, Federal Pennsylvania. Government careerist, became the as• Washi?gton dispatches concerning his sistant to the Secretary of the U. S. De• new assignment quoted the Welfare partment of Health, Education and Wel• S~retary' s assistant _as expressing a spe• fare on January 13 by appointment by cial debt of gratitude to Dickinson Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby. He had which, he said, cultivates a sense of civic been for eight months a special assistant responsibility in its students. on the Secretary's staff. In his new assignment, Mccamant He and Mrs. McCamant have three is responsible for assisting the only children, John, Jr., 9; William, 8, and woman in President Eisenhower's Cabi- Kathy, 6. They reside in Vienna, Va. 14 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Maryland Senator Becomes Associate Judge ORMER State Senator D. Kenneth F Mclaughlin, '281, of Hagerstown, Md., was appointed Associate Judge of the fourth judicial circuit by Governor Theodore McKeldin on January 6. He was. sworn in in the presence of Governor McKeldin who presented him with a gaveL made from wood from Maryland's famed 450-year-old Wye Oak. He will serve in the post until the next general election in 1956. Jli!dge Mclaughlin served in the Mary• land State Senate from Jannary 1947 until he resigned to accept the appointment as judge on January 6 of this year. Since his admission to the bar, he has been engaged in the general practice ·of law in Hagers·• town. A member of the Maryland State Bar D. KENNETH McLAUGHLIN Association andJ the American Bar Asso• ciation, Judge McLaughlin is a past presi• '40, who entered the Methodist ministry dent of the Washing.ton. County Bar by way of New Mexico's great ~arlsbacL Association. He is also a past chairman Caverns National Park. The article fea• of the Republican State Central Commit• tured the minister's great interest in tee for Washington County. hunting and fishing and in conservation. During World War II he served in Rev. Thomas is married to the former the Naval Air Corps from January 1942 Beatrice A. Pennell, '39. Their nine• to November 1945 with the rank of year-old son, Craig, was last year's Lt. Crndr. cerebral palsy "Poster Boy." Despite his Born in Chambersburg, Pa., on Oc• physical handicap, Craig shares his tober 17, 1905, Judge McLaughlin grad• father's love of the out-of-doors and uated from Gettysburg Academy and they often fish together. from the Law School in 1928. At Dickin• Rev. Thomas, who grew up in wooded son he became a member of Phi Delta Northeastern Pennsylvania, had been Theta fraternity. He is a member of ranger in the Carlsbad National Park St. Paul's United Brethren Church of for two and a half years when he de• Hagerstown. cided that the ministry offered greater ~ He married! the former Alice W. Stone• opportunity for service. He served braker at Hagerstown on November 12, churches in San Fransisco and in Glou• 1933. They have a son, David Kenneth, cester, Mass., and since 1949 has. been Jr., iborn May 1, 1942. · pastor of the Brown Memorial Metho• dist Church, in Syracuse. He is national convention chairman From Ranger to Pulpit of the United Palsy Foundation, which he also serves as director-at-large, and When the Syracuse, N. Y., Herald• he is active in the National Resources ! ournal launched a series of articles Council, a private organization whose about local clergymen in January, it objective is, to arouse public interest in started off with the Rev. Robert Thomas, conservafion of national resources. THE DICKINSON AI;UMNUS 15 Becomes Speaker of New Jersey Assembly AUL M. SALSBURG, 18L, attorney P of Atlantic City, has been elected Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly for 1955. He was elected to the House for the first time in November 1947 and was re-elected in both 1949 and 1951. He was majority leader last year. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on March 16, 1896, his family moved to Atlantic City and he graduated from the high school there in 1914. He attended Carnegie Tech for a year and then entered the Dickinson School of Law from which he received the LLB. de• gree upon his. graduation in 1918. After a year of service in World War I, he was admitted to the bar in 1919 and became a counsellor in 1922. He was admitted to practice in the United States PAUL M. SALSBURG Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1929 and was admitted to Roscoe 0. Bonisteel, '12, who presided practice in the United States Supreme as toastmaster, and Walter H. E. Scott, Court in 1941. He is a Supreme Court '24 were reelected president and secre• Commissioner and a Special Master of tar;-treasurer respectively. Mr.. Bon_isteel, the Superior Court. who is a Regent of the University of He is a member of the Atlantic County Michigan, is a prominent attorney of Bar Association and was its president Ann Arbor and also holds a Dickinson in 1935. He was a member of the honorary degree. Mr. Scott is an attorney Ventnor Board of Education in 1934-35 who is associated with the Veterans Ad• and served as its vice-president in 1935. ministration with offices in Detroit. A member of Phi Epsilon Pi fra• With them and their wives and Dr. ternity, he is a member of the Ameri• Edel others at the dinner included Dr. can Legion and the New Jersey State and Mrs. Wm. F. Hufstader and Dr. Bar Association. Herbert M. Gould, of General Motors. He married Hanna Powell of Vent• Dr. Hufstader is a Dickinson Trustee nor, N. J., on August 20, 1937. ~hey and a vice president of General Motors. have two children, a daughter Shirley Three members of the Michigan State and a son Donald. College faculty were there, namely Dr. J. Murray Barbour, '18; Dr. Mark 0. Kistler, '38, and Lynn S. Cressler, '50. Michigan Alumni Meet Dr. Helen S. Swank, '22, physician of The first alumni club meeting of the Ann Arbor was present as were Mr. and winter season took place when the Dick• Mrs. Kenneth Koza and Mr. and Mrs. inson Club of Michigan held a dii:ner Walter F. Cherry. Mrs. Koza is the at the Dearborn Inn, Dearborn, Mich., former Mary Preston, '37. Walter Cherry, on January 28 with 19 present. Offic.ers '26 is a Veterans Administration at• planned the gat~e~ing upon learning tor~ey in Detroit. Philip W. Humer, '54, that President Wdliam W. Edel would of Carlisle, was visiting in Detroit and be in Detroit that week. got to the dinner. 16 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Dickinson-A Doctor's College! By PROFESSOR CHARLES COLEMAN SELLERS

IFTY-FOUR of our alumni are now nonetheless a doctor's college, and his F enrolled in a dozen leading medical "plan o~ E~uc~tion" for it a typical Rush schools. These schools accepted them as production in its breadth of view. Science students with unusual readiness because was to stand on equality with the hu• of previous experience with the quality manities, and physical education for the of Dickinson graduates. During the last first time, to support the development of four years eighty-five per cent of our the mind. pre-medical graduates have been accepted Rush was then thirty-seven years of by the schools to which they first applied. age, . a_nd had _been studying, writing, These facts, just cause for pride to practJcmg, teachrng medicine for twenty• faculty and alumni, are not the result of two year_s. Born in 1746, he graduated a recent trend. They have their roots in from Princeton at fifteen and immedi• a living tradition as old as Dickinson ately took up the study of medicine, itself. Our founder, Dr. Benjamin Rush, ~nally receiving his degree at Edinburgh the most renowned physician of his day in 1768. He opened an office in Phila• and one of the greatest of all time, delphia, and was at once appointed Pro• established that tradition. Because of it fessor of Chemistry in the Medical Dickinson is today, in a very real sense, School of the College of Philadelphia, a doctor's college. later the University of Pennsylvania. In Dr. Rush left the mark of his unique 1770, he published his Syllabus of a and vigorous personality on everything Course of Lectures in Chemistry, the first he did. He was a pioneer in thought and chemistry textbook by an American. action. He had no fear for the hidden Other works followed. Writing spread and terrible sources of disease, no fear his fame but it was a fame based solidly for his many enemies. In boldness of on practice and on teaching. Every day purpose and capacity for work he he worked long and hard in hospital and towered above all others. He worked office, and his lectures came straight from with the combination of inquiry and experience with actual cases. He taught teaching. He worked from the smallest more medical students than any other detail to the broadest conception of the American of his time, and doctors from whole, saw mind and body as one entity, all over the country consulted him. He man and the state as one. In his concern was the hero of the yellow fever epidemic for the health of the nation he signed of 1793, calm in the midst of terror, the Declaration of Independence, in• giving his aid to more than six thousand spired Thomas Paine to publish his patients through that August and Sep• epoch-making Common Sense, superin• tember, till at last he collapsed with tended the manufacture of munitions, fatigue. marched out with the "ragged Continen• Nathan G. Goodman in a recent ar• tals" in their first desperate winter cam• ticle has rightly hailed Rush as the paign, labored in the hospitals of battle• "First American Psychiatrist." It was he field and camp. And, at the end of the who fought for, and won, a separate hos• struggle, to preserve the liberty so dearly pital for the insane, dedicated to humane won, he founded a college. Not another and sympathetic treatment, and his last medical school, this, but a college to pre• and greatest published work, the Medical pare all for the new world before them. Inquiries and Obs~rvations upon the He sealed the idea with a motto: "Pietate Diseases of the Mmd, was a standard et do.ctrina tuta libertas"-"Religion and treatise, here and abroad, for half a cen• learnm~ the bulwark of liberty." It was tury. THE DICKINSON AI.;UMNUS 17

When Rush died in 1813, at the age Joins College Faculty of sixty-seven, his boldness and breadth George H. Frogen, formerly of the of attack had far advanced the battle University of Minnesota, was. appointed against disease. His profession stood to the faculty at mid-year as an in• higher than ever before, veterinary medi• structor in classical languages. He fills cine and other branches had. been brought a department vacancy that resulted from into relation with it, preventive medicine the death of Dr. Arthur Vaughan Bishop established and the public as a whole on January 6. brought to a new consciousness of the need for hygiene, for clean 'Communities, The new instructor is a native of for continuing study. And the host of Cogswell, N. D. He was valediotorian young doctors he had trained with such of his high school class in Minneapolis personal interest-many of them gradu• and in 1931 graduated surnma cum laude ates of Dickinson College-stood as an from the University of Minnesota. He army to carry on the battle. received the degree of Master of Arts at the university in 1944 and is now a It was inevitable that Dickinson stu• candidate there for the Ph.D. degree in dents of Rush's own day should have Greek and Latin. felt the inspiration of his fame and his energy. As far as our records tell, the He has taught in the public schools, Class of 1792 produced the first alumni of Minneapolis and at the University of to go on into medicine, six of them: John Minnesota. A Quaker and a Mason, he Creigh, John Foulke, Maxwell Mc• is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Dowell, James Posthlewaite, James Smith Lambda Alpha Psi, the Archeological and William Steele. They achieved honor Institute of America and the American in their profession. but to them honor is Philological Association. chiefly due as the vanguard in a long procession, from the Eighteenth Century to the present-and on into the future• Elected to Phi Beta Kappa as the founders of a cherished tradition of this college. Four members of the Senior Class were elected to Phi Beta Kappa by Dickinson's Pennsylvania Alpha Chapter at the close of the fall semester in January. They are Choir Recordings on Sale Edith H. Bean, Fort Sam Houston, Tex.; A second edition of the recordings Ruth M. Costenbader, Palmerton, Pa. ; of the 1954 Founders' Day concert of Howard E. Davis, Jim Thorpe, Pa., and the College Choir with members of the Glenn Welliver, Westminster, Md. Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra is now Welliver, who spent his junior year at on sale. The entire first edition was sold the University of Heidelberg, in Ger• out before Commencement and the many, is the son of Dr. lester A. second edition was ordered. Welliver, '18, and Frieda Yeaworrh These records 12" long-playing micro• Welliver, '20. groove records of non-breakable material. The four will be initiated on March 10 The playing time is nearly an hour. The and that night wiH be the guests of selections include: Psalm 150, Franck; honor at the annual Scholarship Dinner Ave Verum Corpus, Mozart; Festival when the College will fete all students Song of Praise, Beethoven; Gloria in who made the Dean's list last semester Excelsis, Mozart and Reve Angelique or the spring semester of the 1953-54 (Seraphic Song) Rubenstein. term. Dinner speaker will be Dr. William Orders should be placed with the Clyde DeVane, dean of Yale College Business Office of the college. The cost and director of the Division of Liberal is $5.50 tax included and postpaid. Arts at Yale University. 18 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Basketball Team Tasting Victories OACH A. C. Ransom's .basketball ing Landa, Valley's great star, to eight C team won six of the eleven games points, his lowest total in two seasons. played in mid-February and should it Johns Hopkins was n~ t~ouble =. al~ a maintain that pace for the balance of few nights later, Dickinson w!nnmg the 19-game schedule, it will have turned 73-59 in the final game before Christmas, in the best Dickinson season since 1949- After the holidays, Juniata was upset, 50 when the courtmen had an 11-6 73-63, in the Alumni Gym. The boys record under the late Charles "Chick" were far off form against F and M., Kennedy. losing 88-66 at Lancaster but bounced A good shooting outfit, the team of back dramatically with a crushing victory three seniors, a junior and a sophomore over Albright, 96-63, the first at the ex• has twice shattered the Dickinson mark pense of the Lions in 10 meetings. for most points in a single game. The old Dickinson was then a 91-79 loser in mark of 89 points, set last year in a , a return game at Juniata. Participating in winning effort against Western Maryland, a college doubleheader in the Hershey was broken in a home game with (Pa.) Sports Arena, the team staged a Albright on January 10 when Dickinson great late-game ra'lly to head off Western was the winner by a 96-63 score. Three Maryland, 68-65. in Pittsburgh, .a 75-64 weeks later the record was upped again decision was dropped to Carnegie Tech, in a 100-74 victory over F. and M., also winner over such teams as Pitt, West in the Alumni Gym. Virginia and Penn State. Back in Carlisle Dickinson has a new scoring star in a few nights later, the team squared ac• James Connor, a 6-foot sophomore guard counts with F. and M., by the record from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., who had a 100 to 74 score. straight 19 average for the first 11 games on 209 points. He is almost sure to break Johnny Hopper's Dickinson record of 329 points for a single season, set in Publish Law School Directory 1947-48. A starter from the beginning A directory of the Alumni of the Dick• of the season, Connor has scored in inson School of Law was published by double figures in every game. He has a the alumni office last month and mailed high of 28, against Albright, and has to all alumni of the school. twice ·hit 27, against Juniata and Western Maryland. Lee Huber, the senior for• The 152 page book is well printed ward, has the second best average, with and bound in a light blue cover of a 14.2. heavy stock. It is the first directory The starters with Huber and Connor printed of law school alumni since 192~. have been Robert Carano, forward, and The book is in four sections. One ts John Dudas, guard, who are seniors, and a listing by classes, another shows locali• John Kohlmeier, the center, a junior. ties in Pennsylvania by counties where Kohlmeier is the most improved player alumni now reside, the third is a geo• on the squad, getting better in every graphical listing and the fourth ~n game, and big things are expected of alphabetical list. In the alphabetical list him before he graduates. there is a mark to designate the prac• After the opening-game loss at Penn tising lawyers. State, 81-63, the team turned back Eliza• In the mailings a card was en_closed bethtown, then undefeated, iby 66-59 in reading in part "If you would _'1tke to the Alumni Gym. Still at home, the team share in the cost of printing, typ1i:ig ~nd dropped a 73-59 decision to Lebanon mailing of this directory, a contribution Valley but had the satisfaction of hold- of two dollars would be welcomed." THE DICKINSON AI:UMNUS 19 Chosen to Preach in British Isles HE Rev. Dr. Everett F. Hallock, '30, Tpastor of Vincent Methodist Church, Nutley, N. J., has been asked to be one of the ten preachers from the United States to preach in England this summer under the auspices of the National Coun• cil of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. He is probably the lone Metho• dist to be asked to do this. He will sail in July and wiH preach the four Sun• days in August in England, Scotland and Ireland. After serving as District Superinten• dent of the Eastern District in the Newark C?nference, he was named pas• tor of Vmcent Methodist Church in Nutley, which is the third largest church m the Newark Conference, with nearly 1,400 members. Dr. Hallock is a former president of EVE;RETT F. HALLOCK the Newark Conference Board of Edu• cation, former chairman of the Con• For the second time in his short coach• ference Board of Ministerial Training ing career, he was able to rejoice in an and former president of the Essex County undefeated football season. A few years Council of Churches. He served pastor• ago he coached the P. M. C. Prep School ates in Jersey City, Maplewood, Orange team without a loss. In the gridiron cam• and Rutherford, N. J., before his ap• paign last fall be guided the coll~ge pointment as district superintendent in team through a seven game campaign 1949. without a defeat or a tie. His closest A graduate of Drew Theological call was the Dickinson Homecoming Seminary, he holds his bachelor's and zarne on Biddle Field which his cadets doctor of divinity degrees from Dickin• ~on 6 to 2. He had other victories over son. A member of Beta Theta Pi Fra• Western Maryland, Moravian, Wagner, ternity, he is a past president of the Lycoming, Lebanon Valley and AI.bright. Dickinson Club of Northern New Jersey. He went to PMC in 1945 as an in• Dr. Hallock married his classmate, structor and athletic coach at the prepar• Catherine C Porter. Their son, Donald atory school. later he joined the college E. Hallock, '54, is now serving with the admission and coaching staffs. Navy as an aviation storekeeper third class. Heads Luzerne Bar The Honorable Arthur H. James, Named to PMC Post 11.D., '04, former governor of Penn• George A. Hansell, Jr., '34, head foot• sylvania, has been elected president of ball and track coach at Pennsylvania the Luzerne County Bar Association. Military College, Chester, Pa., was named At the end of his term as governor, he Director of Athletics there last month. resumed law practice in Wilkes Barre, He will continue in his coaching posi• Pa. and returned to his, home in tions. Plymouth. 20 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Preaches at Boyhood School Anniversary A retired minister, with almost a Missionary and Church Extention Society half century of service, returned to and many other organizations, has lived his childhood Sunday School as guest for many years at 122 Nippon St., Mt. speaker at a 75th anniversary service on Airy, with his wife, the former Mary Sunday, January 9. Ann Rebert, '95. He is the Rev. Dr. William H. Ford, '94, a former Methodist Church district superintendent, now in retirement serv• Makes Record of Songs ing as chaplain of the Methodist Epis• copal Hospital. "The Life of Christ in Song" is the Dr. Ford who as a boy attended the title of a new record of ten songs sung first meetings of the John B. Stetson by Philip J. Cartwright, '42, bass baritone Mission Sunday School, an uridenomi• of Maplewood, N. J. He recently was national Sunday School, in 1880, went the soloist with the Honolulu Oratorio on and worked his way through college Society and the Honolulu Symphony and entered the ministry. Society. The ten selections in the new record For the first of four special services begin with the prophecy of the birth of marking the anniversary, the Stetson Christ, and include His life and teach• Sunday School returned to its original ings, His crucifixion and His resurrec• home, the Stetson factory. Dr. Ford's tion. They are recorded on both sides of sermon topic was "The Bulwark of a 12" recordi; 33 rpm and were made Individual and National Life." in Morrow Memorial Methodist Church, The other three services were held Maplewood, N. J., with the Rev. Wil• at the Seventh Street Methodist Church, liam K. Burns at the organ. The price where the School has met for the past is $5. Orders may be sent to Records, thirteen years. Room 905, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York Born in Philadelphia in 1869, Dr. 11, N. Y. Ford was educated in Philadelphia pub• lic schools ; Pennington Seminary and Dickinson College. He graduated in 1894, received his M.A. in 1897 and Receives Appointment was awarded the Doctor of Divinity Dr. Horace E. Rogers, '24, Alfred degree in 1908. When he was a child, Victor duPont Professor of Analytical Dr. Ford went to the Stetson Sunday Chemistry at the college, has been ap• School. Later he worked in the Stetson pointed to the national committee . on factory while earning enough money to constitution and by-laws of the American further his education. Chemical Society. For half a century, his life was de• voted to religious work during which he was pastor of the First Church at Easton for 13 years; a district superin• To Seek Third Term tendent for six years and dosed his Judge W. C. Sheely, '26L, president ministry in Philadelphia after serving judge of the courts of Adams and Fulton 11 years as pastor of the Mt. Airy Counties, for the last 20 years, has an• Methodist Church. He retired 13 years nounced his candidacy for his third term. ago. Judge Sheely was elected 19 }'."ears ago Dr. Ford who was active on the Board without opposition at the primary or of Trustees at Methodist Hospital, the general election. He is president of the Board of Managers of the Philadelphia Dickinson School> of Law. THE DICKINSON .AI;UMNUS 21 College Tests Interest in Painting and Design ICKINSON students interested in part of its Adult Education Plan, now D painting and design are having the in the second year of operation. Cur• opportunity to cultivate that interest this rent courses began February 8 and in• semester under an established artist who clude Applied Psychology, Ethics for is also an experienced art teacher. Contemporary Living, Public Speaking Mary Snedeker, free-lance artist and and Practical Writing. member of the teaching staffs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Cheltenham Art Center, is spending Plan Club Meetings several days a week on the campus in an arrangement with the College extending Seven of the alumni dubs have set to May 1. The program began with the dates for their annual dinner meetings start of the spring semester January 31. and others are making plans for these The College hopes to provide similar events. The Michigan Club opened the opportunity for art training in subsequent season with a dinner at the Dearborn years and to join permanently the colleges Inn, in Detroit on January- 28. A score which bring practicing artists to their or Dickinsonians attended the annual campuses as a stimulus to their cultural luncheon of the Pennsylvania All-College life. Alumni Association of Washington, The artist-in-residence experiment is D. C., heid in the Shoreham Hotel there off to a promising start. Although the on February 5, when a citation was pre· course does not carry credit toward gradu• sented to Senator Edward Martin. ation, no less than 27 students signed Two dub meetings are scheduled for up for Miss Snedeker's classes this March. Homer M. Respess, '17, president semester. The artist is available to all of the Baltimore Club, is planning for a students anxious for her advice on art banner dinner on Tuesday, March 22 at matters and she appears occasionally as the Lovely Lane Methodist Church, St. guest lecturer before classes in the history Paul and 22nd Streets at 6:30 P. M. at of art. $2.00 a plate. The Rev. Kenneth Rose, Miss Snedeker, who lives in Jenkin• '44, is pastor of the church. town, Pa., attended Colby Junior College Harry W. Speidel has arranged for and Beaver College and is a graduate of the dinner of the Reading-Berks Club the Rhode Island School of Design. Just to be held in Reading on March 31. before her arrival on the campus the Dr. Robert L. D. Davidson, '31, has College exhibited examples of her free• reserved the Merion Cricket Club at lance work including oil paintings, draw• Ardmore for the Philadelphia Club ings in various media, lithograph and dinner on Wednesday night, April 13 silk-screen prints, books and magazine and is planning a very unusual program illustration and strip drawings. for that occasion. The College has shared her pres• J. Ohrum Small, '15, is at work on ence on the campus with the communi• the Delaware Club dinner co be held in ty by organizing art classes for young Wilmington late in April or early May. people and adults. Miss Snedeker has Benjamin Epstein, '33, has set April 22 40 persons in these classes, some of her for the New York Club, while Mrs. Mary students coming from points as far from Rhein, '32, has fixed April 29 for the the campus as Harrisburg. Harrisburg group at the West Shore The art classes are in addition to Country Club and Mrs. Wm. Srnethurst, the non-credit evening classes being '25, is planning for the Northern New given by the college this spring as Jersey Club to gather on May 5. 22 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

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Mail sent to al'l of the following has been returned. Efforts are being made to secure every address for publication in the forthcoming Directory as well as for regular College mailings. If the reader can supply any address send it to THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. 1889 1911 Mrs. Noah Thompson Charles M. Lodge (Dorothy Davis) Thomas M. West, M.D. 1912 1925 1895 Dr. Charles C. Bramble Nomer Gray Edwin J. Cummings Mrs. F. F. Row Florence C. Speck 1896 (Melinda Zang) 1926 Mrs. Edward B. Krehbiel 1913 (Mary L. Billings) Mrs. Roy W. Coxen Anna I. Fisher (Mildred McCormick) 1897 Mrs. Charles C. Bramble Mrs. Erma deFranciscus (Edith Rinker) (Erma M. Baird) Jacob L. Diehl 1914 Theodore Hofer 1900 Mrs. Bruce T. McCully Frank C. Bunting (Dorothy F. Logan) James H. Hall Joseph M. Hewitt Ransom B. Nichols 1901 Charles M. Smith Charles D. Rickabaugh Mrs. I. Price Wagner Mrs. Norman Schafer (Katheryn Reinhart) 1927 (Jessie R. Houck) 1917 Matthews Dougherty 1902 George B. Murphy, Jr. Lewis V. Compton Moordeen Plough Edgar B. Curtis Col. John G. White Mrs. James C. Houser 1928 (Charlotte Short) 1920 George H. Burke Alfred ]. Carter 1904 Mrs. Marshall B. Gurney Leah K. Dickinson (Mary Smith) Arthur B. Fancher Joseph ]. Wertacnik Benjamin A. Garrett Franklin R. Robinson 1921 1905 1929 James H. Opie Harvey M. Miller, Esq. Mrs. Philip Schindler Stanley H. Shirk 1906 (Charlotte Legris) 1930 Mrs. Ralph Bassler 1922 Bessie S. Baker (Mary W. Mosser) Dr. Walter C. Merkel 1931 1907 1923 William B. Bailey, M.D. J. P Bill V. N. Johnston Frederick L. Brown John Craig King y,irgil M. Knowles Frank L. Dughi Howard H. McClure Allen F. Morton 1909 Della Reupsch Calvin H. Shultz Mrs. William L. Lewis 1932 (Alice Burchenal) 1924 Joshua C. Tindall Mrs. J. H. Forshew Robert L. Kerridge (Anne B. Davies) Edgar R. Marwine 1910 Arthur L. Kinkead Virginia I. Meyers Mrs. Lillian W. Smith Mrs. C. E. Stone David S. Myers (Lillian Wyman) (Elizabeth R. Morgan) Aaron Schermer THE DICKINSON AI.;UMNUS 23

1933 Alfred Romain 1948 Beatrice V. Sautter Mrs. John H. Findlay Francis X. Daly (Ruth F. Ferguson) 1940 Ray A. Dietrich Mrs. Jean L. Johnson James H. Doherty (Jean K. Lowder) Rev. John W. Dubocq Mo-Hsi Hsu Alfred B. Miller, M.D. I. Ying Li A. Rosemary Larson Dr. John A. Norcross Mrs. John D. Scheuer, Jr. James F. Robertson (Jane Gilmore) 1934 Mrs. Ethel Reuben 1949 (Ethel B. Jones) Louis C. Coburn Richard R. Strome John C. Eby William R. Darbee Fred J. Maurada Karl Ringer 1941 William A. Parks Charles E. Phayre 1935 Clinton F. Bacastow Robert Rollman, Jr. Irvin A. Garfinkel Lt. Fletcher Kraus Claud H. Steigerwalt Sidney Gritz Norman C. Walpole Mrs. Bertram J. Lange Edmond Benevento (Jean H. Black) Marion M. Wolfson Charles H. Peters, Jr. James L. Young, Jr. L. Dale Gasteiger William L. Sanborn W. Trickett Giles, Jr. 1950 Mrs. Harold K. Skramstad 1942 (Sarah K. Shroat) David T. Demme Charles L. Fenton Earl E. Evans 1936 George T. Hartzell Mark M. Grubbs, Jr. 1943 Josette E. 'Moran 0. Herman Dreskin Lenore Rosenthal Robert L. McCartney Sam D. Brown, Jr. Richard L. Lebo Mrs. Robert L. Duval George J. Weisbaum (Jane S. Seivwright) Sam Wilker 1944 1951 1937 Mrs. William Fisher Richard P. P. Fairall Mrs. Clifford C. Williams (Doris Bacastow) Richard A. Gette (Ruth L. Beegle) Mrs. Charles W. Kenady Lawrence H. McGuire, Jr. Mrs. Ernest Coleman (Winifred M. Donohue) (Betty Crane) Robert A. Cohen 1952 Joseph T. A. Gusick Rev. Walter S. Green Dr. Lawrence N. Harvey Richard Gorsira Joseph Snyder Klaus H. Murmann 1938 1946 Mrs. J. Robert Bock (Diane M. Steward) Robert A. Burns Gustav G. Mitchell Janet L. Weaver Albert R. Lewis John W. Wright Masayoshi Murakami William R. Wasko 1953 Frederick J. Stichweh 1947 Delmar L. Weidner 1939 Mrs. Joseph J. Mallouk 1954 John S. McCool (Roberta S. Saseen) Martha S. Mccloskey Robert P. Nugent William E. Thompson Harry E. Packer

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1885 1915 A pamphlet "The Hoover Dam" writing Mr. and Mrs. Leon W. Syfrit, of Gordon from a surety man's standpoint by Dr. Guy Heights, Del., made announcement last LeRoy Stevick has been published by the month of the engagement of their daughter, Kohnke Printing Company of San Francisco. Miss Wilhelmina C. S. Syfrit, to Leonard It tells of the part he played in providing G. Hagner, Esq., of Wilmington. Miss Syfrit surety bonds in the millions of dollars for was educated at Southern Seminary, Maryland that great project. College for Women and the University of Pennsylvania School of Journalism. "Hap" 1900 is U. S. District Attorney for Delaware. Malcolm B. Sterrett has retired from the 1918 active practice of law to his home 817 Paul L. Hutchison has announced the re• Kenilworth Terrace, Orlando, Fla. ' A testimonial dinner in honor of the Rev. moval of his law offices to 25 South Front Henry E. Walhey was given by the Board of Street, Harrisburg, Pa. Directors of the Methodist Church Home While on a vacation last month at Chal• in Cornwall, Pa., last November 18. He was fonte Haddon Hall, Atlantic City, Mr. and honored as one of the founders of the Corn• Mrs. Mervin G. Coyle, of Carlisle, won first wall Home. With a long record of service and second prize in the bridge tournament in the Philadelphia Conference, he was field at the hotel. secretary of the Methodist Home for the 1919 Aged in Philadelphia, prior to his retirement. Urie D. Lutz was elected a director of 1904 the Carlisle Chamber of Commerce in De• cember. Professor Charles L. Swift, who suffered Dr. Robert P. Masland, Jr., son of Mr. a broken hip some months ago, is receiving and Mrs. R. P. Masland of Carlisle, has good care and medical attention at the Union been appointed assistant in pediatrics at the Nursing Home, 1074 Pleasant St., New Bed• Harvard Medical School. A graduate of ford, Mass. His sister, Miss Isabel Swift, Yale University in 1924, he received his writes that he cannot answer mail, but that M.D. degree from Columbia University Col• he would like to hear from his friends and lege of Physicians and Surgeons in 1945. is always pleased when she reads his mail He and his wife and three sons live in to him. Needham, Mass. Judge Mark E. Garber, who was appointed 1906 to the Cumberland County bench by Governer Honor was paid to the memory of the late John Fine a year ago, has announced his Rev. Dr. J. Lane Miller, pastor of the Rye, candidacy for a full term at the May pri• N. Y. Methodist Church for ten years prior mary on the Republican ticket. to his death a year ago, when the church's new chancel furnishings were dedicated at 1923 a special service last month. The furnishings · Mrs. J. E. Wark, the former Mary Gar• included a pulpit donated by Mrs. Miller; land, has returned to Olympia, Wash. to be a Celtic altar cross, and an altar, reredoes her own replacement as librarian in the and lectern, the gifts of friends. Curriculum Library of the State Department of Public Instruction. Her husband died in 1912 October 1953 and her son, Robert, is now in Richland working for the General Elec• Edwin S. Dorcus, of Elkton Md., is serv• tric Company. He recently completed a tour of ing as fund chairman of the' Cecil County duty with the Coast Guard and was married Chapter of the American Red Cross. He after his return from the service. is president of the Elkton Banking and Trust Company and the executive board of 1925 Union Hospital, Treasurer of the Children's Aid Society and the Cecil County Community Dr. Gerald H. Miller became a Lifer last Chest and a member of the Finance Com• month. He graduated from Temple Univer• mittee of West Nottinghom Academy. He is sity Medical College in 1929 and is living also active in other civic and church organi• at Cranbury, N. J., where he is engaged in zations. private practice. He married the former THE DICKINSON AI;UMNUS 25

Alberta Clayton in 1937 and they have a son, 1933 Gerald H., Jr., born May 27, 1939, and a Announcement has been made by Chad• daughter, Nancy ]., born July 11, 1944. bourne, Parks, Whiteside, Wolff & Brophy, 1926 one of the leading legal firms with offices at 25 Broadway, New York 4, N. Y., that on Dr. John P. Milligan, the New Jersey January 1 Cyril F. Hetsko became a mem• State assistant commissioner of education, ber of the firm. was the speaker at an open meeting of the Carlisle Intercultural Council on February 2. Nola Blaine Faust and E. E. Wolf were His subject was "The Problem of Racial married on January 29 at St. Joseph's Catholic Integration in the Schools." Church, Mechanicsburg, Pa. Mr. Wolf is a J. Ressler Shultz, of Wilmette, Ill., who member of the advertising staff of the Gettys• joined the staff on the Wells Organiza• burg Times. tions in 195,0, has been made vice president Edward ]. Bonin, of Hazleton, Pa., who and director of the sales division. His photo• was defeated in his bid for re-election to graph appeared on the fall issue of Wells Congress by Daniel Flood, was named as• Way, the company's magazine. His concern sistant manager for the Philadelphia regional is engaged in fund raising and specializes in post office this month. It is a $9,600 a year service to churches. post. 1927 1934 Walter P. Shuman was elected president Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Mentzer Shughart, of the Board of Governors of the Carlisle mother of Judge Dale F. Shughart, presid• Country Club at the annual meeting in ing Judge of Cumberland County, died on December. November 23 in Carlisle at the age of 87 years. 1930 1935 C. Melvin Shields received the Master of Arts degree from Pennsylvania State Uni• Dr. John P. Hobach is pracncing medicine versity on January 31. with offices at 2202 Fourth St., North, St. Dr. Edward S. Kronenberg, Jr., physician Petersburg, Fla. His home is at 1901 Arrow• of Carlisle has been elected president of head Place there. the Cumbe1'.land County Medical Society. 1937 After his services as district superintendent, the Rev. Dr. Everett F. Hallock became pas• Major Leonard Koltnow, who entered the tor of Vincent Methodist Church in Nutley, Army in July 1953, has completed a tour N. ]. This is the third largest church in the of duty as a dental officer with the 24th Newark Conference with a membership close Infantry Division in Korea and is now serv• to 1400. ing with the Post Dental Section at Fort Dix, N. ]. His wife, the former Alberta Gardner, 1931 and their two children, Larry and Sharon, ]. Wesley Oler has been taken into the are presently living at 1 S. Cambridge Ave., law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Ventnor City. Philadelphia. . Lewis F. Gayner has been appointed by 1938 the Commissioner of Education for the State David S. Hyde became a Lifer last month. of New Jersey as a member of the committee He is the sales manager for Farm Equip• to review "The Guide for Schoolhouse Plan• ment Distributor and Manufacturer. He mar• ning and Construction." A trustee of the ried the former Pauline Groff in December College, Mr. Gayner. is president of the 1939. They have two daughters, Suzanne Gayner Glass Works m Salem, N. ]. born May 25, 1944 and Sally Ann born Dr. Milton E. Flower, of the college fac• March 16, 1948. ulty, was elected to t~e Carlisle Zoning and Planning Commission m December. 1939 Mr. Ira Cohill, of Carlisle, has announced 1932 the engagement of his daughter, Miss Shirley Dr. A. W. Freeman, physician of Ship• Cohill, to Dale 0. Hartzell. Miss Cohill pensburg, has been installed as . president of is employed by the Standard Piezo Co. and the Franklin County Medical Society, Dale is employed at the Cities Service Sta• Robert Lee Jacobs, attorney of Carlisle, tion. The couple plan an early spring wedding. has announced his candidacy for the Demo• cratic nomination for the office of judge of 1940 Cumberland County. The post is now held by Mrs. 0. E. Byers, the former Ruth Porter Mark E. Garber, '19. "Bob" is a former has been living with her husband and two State Senator. At the end of that term he did sons, Lee and Gary, at 515 North Tampa not seek reelection. Ave., Orlando, Fla., since 1952. Both she 26 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

1945 J?r. Daniel B. Carroll, physician of Morris What's the News? Plains, N. ]., became a Lifer in December. You like to read about your He graduated from the University of Roches• ter School of Medicine in 1948 and from classmates and they like to know 1951 to 1953 was a Captain in the Army about you. Write your own per• Medical Corp. He married the former Geral• sonal and send it to Gilbert Mal• dine C. Maruska at Atlantic City on Sep• colm, Dickinson College, Carlisle, tember 17, 1949. Pa. 1946 If you see something in your Mr. and Mrs. Harry R . .Kulp, of 1676 New Holland Pike, Lancaster, Pa., announce home town paper about a Dickin• the birth of a daughter,. Sarah Jane, on sonian, cut it out, write the date July 25, 1954. Mrs. Kulp rs the former Jane of newspaper on it and mail the i. Rrenneman. clipping. 1947 Mr. and Mrs. Marcus A. McKnight, Jr., of Mechanicsburg, have announced the birth of a daughter, Marguerite Michele, on De• and her husband are teaching in Orlando. cember 26. Mrs. McKnight is the former Mr. and Mrs. James Gorman, of 940 East Marguerite Dick, of Three Mile Bay, N. Y. Market Street, York, Pa., announced the Rebecca Kidd was married on August 21, birth of a son on January 13. Mrs. Gorman 1954, to H. Armistead Bradley. She is a is the former Martha Stoll. laboratory technician at Johns Hopkins Hos• 1941 pital in the Clinical Chemistry laboratory. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Roulston have an• Mr. and Mrs. James R. Humer, of 230 nounced the marriage of their daughter, S. College St., Carlisle, announced the birth Elizabeth Anne, to Mr. Samuel Ellis Gib• of their second son, John Harris, last July 20. son on January 22 at the Tully Memorial 1943 Presbyterian Church, Sharon Hill, Pa. The couple now reside at 2152-B South John Mr. and Mrs. Zane G. Kaufman believe Russell Circle, Elkins Park, Pa. their new address will be a permanent one. Mr. and Mrs. Landis C. Garman, of Her• ~t JS .142 Maple Street, Manchester, Pa. Zane, shey, have announced the engagement of their 45, JS teaching for the second year in the daughter, Linda Louise, to Jack H. Cassel, of 7th and 8th grades in the York County Schools Mechanicsburg, a ministerial student who is a in Northern Newberry Township. His wife, member of the sophomore class at the College. the former Ruth Cardell, taught there until Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Eshenour, of last December, when a leave of absence Greason, have announced the engagement of teacher returned. She says she now limits their daughter, Caroline G., to Paul E. her teachrng to Week Day Church School Wise, II, of Carlisle. He is now a student and Sunday School. at Pennsylvania State University. 1944 Paul L. Jaffe, who graduated from the Dr. and Mrs. Donald W. Meals, of University of Pennsylvania Law School in Hampton, Va., announce the birth of a 1950, was elected chairman of the Executive daughter, Jennifer Briner, on December 20, Committee of the Junior Bar Association in ~t the Newport News Hospital. Mrs. Meals Philadelphia last month. On March 13 he is the former Kathleen Briner. will marry Miss Joan H. Feldgoise, da'ugh• Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Neff Baltimore ~er of Sam~el F. Feldgoise, an attorney, who announce the birth of a daughter Betsy is vice chairman of United Fund. Frisch Neff, on November 20. ' George G. McClintock, Jr., has been ap• pointed assistant general manager of Motor Herbert G. Rupp was presented with the Freight Express, which has been his em• Jun.10r Chamber of Commerce plaque desig• ployer since his graduation. He was a sales natrng h_1m as,, the "Outstanding Young Man and service representative until 1951 when of_ Harrisburg . at the third annual Bosses' he became a district manager at Harrisburg. Ni.\iht dinner in the Chestnut Street Audi• He is now in the York office. He lives in New tor~um in January. An attorney, he has been Cumberland with his wife and son. act~ve with many charity and service organi• zatrons. 1948 R~lph \X'.· Schecter, Jr., Birmingham Ala The Rev. Austin H. Arrnitstead, who has received. Im LL.B. degree early th' ' been the minister of the Methodist Church upon his . d · f is month1·· gra uation rorn the University of in Center Moriches, L. I., N. Y. since 1952, A l a b ama Law School. is the newly elected president of the Suf- THE DICKINSON ALUMN'US 27 folk County, N. Y. Council of Churches. While serving with the 12th Armored Divi• sion in World War II, he became a prisoner What's Doing? of war. He married the former Bianca If you get promoted, get mar• Nielsen on October 27, 1951 and they have ried, have a baby, land a better a daughter, Nancy Lou, born June 11, 1953. Dr. Marvin Goldstein returned from serv• job, move to a new home or office ice with the medical corps in Korea last send the announcement, invita• month and is now at his home in New tion or a letter to Gilbert Mal• Rochelle, N. Y. Dr. James H. Soltow, member of the colm, Dickinson College Carlisle history department of Hunter College, will Pa. ' ' read a paper at the Mississippi Valley His• That's where many of the Per• torical Association meeting, April 28-30, in St. Paul, on "Origin of the Small City En• sonals in these columns come trepeneur and Enterprise." from-and every one wants to Donald Pimm is teaching literature and know about you. dramatics in a demonstration high school in Edmonton, Alberta, and is also lecturing part time in the School of Education of the University of Alberta. His address is 10956 Wilmington Manor elementary school and 75th Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. had been the junior varsity coach. 1949 . Basil W. Kings has been named a lecturer m history at Auckland Teachers Traininz Klaus Kartzke was married in Berlin, Ger• College in New Zealand. He received hi~ many, on August 14, l 954, to Miss Ingelore M. A. with second class honours in 1953 Gramm, also from Berlin. Miss Gramm was from Auckland University College. an exchange student at Albright College, Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Wythes have an• Reading, Pa., from 1948 to 1952 when she nounced the marriage of their daughter Eliza• received her B.S. Mr. and Mrs. Kartzke now beth Jane, to Richard E. Hicks '51 ;n De• live at Wiesbaden, Sonnenberger Strasse 31, cember 26 in Haddonfield, N. 'J. Dick is a Germany. Klaus still works for the Adam senior at Jefferson Medical School. Opel, A. G., German subsidiary of Genera! Mr. and Mrs. Jack Trego, Silver Bay Minn Motors. announced the birth of a son, . Stephe~ Kent: Dr. and Mrs. Hampton P. Corson, of on October 5. Mrs. Trego is the former 1281/z W. Main St., Wickford, R. I., an• Charlotte Martin. nounced the arrival of their second daughter, Mr: and Mrs. Dean W. Strong announce Frances Ann, on December 27. Their first the birth of a son, Keith William, on Novem• daughter, Linda, was born November 11, ber 21. They have another son, Craig Edward, 1952. Mrs. Corson is the former Mary Ellen born September 27, 1952. Mrs. Strong is the Dykstra, '52. former Sarah Miller. - The marriage of Ann Fritz Wilkinson. Fitzhugh W. Shelley, who graduated from daughter of Mrs. Robert H. Wilkinson of the Law School in 1953, has announced the Merion, Pa., and . the late Mr. Wilkinson, opening of his Jaw offices at 44 S. Second St to Mr. Robert Wilson Murphey took place Steelton, Pa. ., in the Overbrook Presbyterian Church, Phila• Robert B. Davies graduated from the Phila- delphia, on January 22, 1955. Mrs. Ralph delphia College of Osteopathy last June. Leedom Dill, '49, was in the bridal party. . Virginia Rieck was chosen as a representa• Following a wedding trip to Nassau, B. W. I.. tive of the U01ve_rs1ty of Copenhagen School the couple reside in their new home, "Wind for Graduate Studies to the Hersfest in Copen• Song," Sycamore Mills Road, Media, R. D. 1, h~gen. There she met Queen Engrid and Pa. King Frederik of Denmark as well as the Mr. and Mrs. Ross Watson, of 512 Oak Royal Ministers. Before the opening of the Street, Irwin, Pa., announced the birth of a school term last October, she made an ex• son, Kent Byron, on September 8. They also tensive tour of Europe and spent the Christ• have a daughter Janette Kimberly. Mrs. W'a•• mas holidays on a skiing trip in Norway. son is the former Doris Woodward. H. James Elvin, of Tamaqua, Pa., received 1951 the degree of Doctor of Osteopathy upon his graduation last June from the Philadelphia The Rev. Stacy D. Myers, Jr., received his College of Osteopathy. Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree last June. from the Temple School of Theology 1950 an~ is now studying for his .Master's degree, Frederick C. (Ted) May has been appointed wluch he probably will receive in June. basketball coach at the Will-iam Penn High Mr. and Mrs. James T. Evans, Apt. 21-A, School, New Castle, Del. He teaches in the Thomas St., Harnsburg, Pa., announced the 28 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS birth of their second son, Jeffrey Burr, oa Co. Memorial Hospital as a medical tech• December 5. Mrs. Evans is the former Pamela nologist until Jim is released from the U. S. Burr, '50. Navy in November. Lucille Frances Dyer was married to Preston Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Piepgrass, of Hunter on May 29, 1954 in the Methodist Silver Spring, have announced the engagement Church, Berkeley, Calif. They now reside at of their daughter, Patsy, to Russell Sasscer, 626 Clayton St., El Cerrito, Calif. of Brandywine. Russell is now attending Dal• Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Masland, III, of las Theological Seminary, Dallas Tex. Miss 236 E St., Carlisle, announced the birth of a Piepgrass is on the staff of the Sibley Mem• son, Charles H., IV, on January 26. Mrs. orial Hospital. Masland is the former Virginia Parlin. Joan L. Hambleton was married to Donald Lt. (j. g.) William L. Filson, son of Mr. C. Pollock in St. Jame's Episcopal Church, and Mrs. Jesse G. Filson, of Folson, Pa., was Lancaster, on January 14. Mrs. Pollock is a married to Miss Frances DeMars Siegling, graduate of Cornell University Hospital School daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Siegling of Nursing and will be employed at the Trues• at St. John's Luthern Church, Charleston, dale Memorial Hospital in Fall River, Mass. S. C. on October 23, 1954. The couple now Mr. Pollock, who is a graduate of Franklin reside at 7-B Legare St., Charleston, S. C. and Marshall, is serving in the U. S. Navy Mary Ann Spence, who graduated from aboard the USS Yosemite, a destroyer tender, the Dickinson School of Law last June, has in Newport, R. I. been admitted to practice at the Dauphin County Bar and is now associated with the Mrs. Harry A. Lackey, 2nd, the former law office of John H. Moody, in Harrisburg. Betty B. McCarthy, is now living with her family at 4311 Shirley Ave., Jacksonville 10, 1952 Fla. Jean L. Eastep, of Carlisle, has been pro• 1954 moted to 1st Lt. in the Women's Medical Specialist Corps. She is a physical therapist Mr. and Mrs. George M. Davey, of Great at the Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washing• Kills, N. Y., have announced the engagement ton, D. C. of their daughter, Anne Louise, to Robert Pvt. Philip Rogers, who took his basic Thomas Crumpton, son of Mr. and Mrs. John training at Fort Jackson, S. C., has been as• Reeves Crumpton, of Starkville, Mass. The signed to Fort McClellan, Ala. recipient of the Danforth Foundation Award Mr. and Mrs. John A. Buttorff, of Carlisle, for Pennsylvania, Miss Davey was assigned have announced -the engagement of their to work with religious organizations at Missi• daughter, Lois Ann, to Owen A. Kertland, ssippi State College under terms of the award. Jr. Miss Buttorff, graduate of the Carlisle William ]. Duiker, 3rd, has been notified High School, is assistant to the treasurer of by the Department of State that he passed the the college. Kertland, who is an Airman written Foreign Service Officer examination First Class sailed on January 15 for service conducted by the Department last September. in Korea. He is with Headquarters 5th Comm. Bill prepared for the examination by 10 weeks Group, A. P. 0. 70, San Francisco, Calif. of study last summer at Georgetown Uni• versity's Institute of Foreign Service Officer 1953 Preparation. Harold E. Bauer, who has been working Mr. and Mrs. Philip W. Hummer, of 56 with the DuPont Company since his gradua• W. Willow St., Carlisle, announced the birth tion from the college, has been accepted for of a daughter, Jean Christine, on September admission at Jefferson Medical College for 22. the academic year to begin in September. Herbert J. Ca!Jister, II, was married to Miss George f;I. Bostock, Jr. has been appointed Phyllis Beam, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. to the business staff of the Dickinson Law Beam of Newville, in the Hays Grove Evan• Review. He is now in his middler year at gelical U. B. Church on November 6. The the Law School. couple now reside at Laurel, L. I., N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn M. Richardson, of Ronald Goldberg has been accepted for Ne~ville, have an_nounced the engagement 01 admission at the Philadelphia Co!Jege of their daughter, Miss Margaret L. Richardson, Osteopathy for the class to begin in September. to Kenneth L. Harvey. Miss Richardson is a Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Adams have announced graduate of Shippensburg State Teachers Col• the engagement of their daughter, Marcella, to lege and is teac~ing the _third grade at Glen• Elmer S. Lightner, who is a student at the side, Pa. Ken is attendmg Temple Medical University of Pennsylvania Medical School. School. Mr. and Mrs. ]. L. Farner, of Carlisle, Nellie R~y Benfield and James W. Mackie have announced the engagement of their were married at Trinity Luthern Church daughter, Martha Ann, to Laurence V. Radtke, Chambersburg, _Penna.,_ on December 11, 1954'. '' Jr., who is in the Army at Fort Dix, N. J. Mrs. Mackie will retain her position at Salem . Pvt. ]. Kirk Swigert, who had been as- THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 29 signed to the Chemical Corps following his been accepted for admission at Temple Dental basic training, sailed for Germany last month School for the next year. for duty there. William H. Klompus, of Bound Brook, Judith L. Harvey and Cardell B. Cook N. J., has been accepted for admission at were married in the Brentwood Presbyterian New York Medical College, Flower and Church, Pittsburgh, Pa., on January 29. A Fifth Avenue, for the next year. number of Dickinsonians were in the bridal Harold 'ill\'.· Bauer, Riverton, N. J., and party. The reception took place at the South John W, Wilt, of Clearfield, Pa., have been Hills Country Club. Following a southern accepted for admission at Jefferson Medical wedding trip, the couple will reside in Green• College for the year to begin next Sep• ville, S. C. tember. Donald E. Hallock is in the third year Lynn I. Adams, of Shippensburg, Pa., has of his enlistment with the U. S. Navy. He been accepted for admission at the University has been advanced to the rank of A/k3 of Temple Medical School for next year. (aviation storekeeper third class) and is sta• W. F. E. Hanby, of Hartsville, Pa.; Susan tioned at the Air Development Station, Johns• Jane Hutton, of New Cumberland, Pa., and ville, Pa. Theodore L. Phillips, of Springfield, Pa., have Mrs. Calvin Rensch, the former Caroline been accepted _for admission at the University McMullin, and her husband are now in a of Pennsylvania School of Medicine for next jungle training camp at Ixtapa, Chiapas, September. Mexico. From the base at Ixtpa they have Ba_vbara Ann Tough and. Frank King were traveled through the surrounding country vis• married last ~ecember 27 in the Presbyterian iting the Indians and settlements in that area. Church of Winchester, Va. They are seniors One of the villages visited was the home of at the California, Pa. State Teachers College. some of the Lacandon Indians, considered the most primitive tribe in North America. 1955L They have also visited several Tceltal villages Joseph Robert Kowitski, of Centralia Pa. while living under primitive conditions in all was married to Miss Mary Pomeroy Maclay'. of their travels. daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Maclay, of Anne Kinney was married to Thayer Ed• Cham~ersburg, on December 27 in the Corpus ward Merrill on January 8 in St. Alban's Christi Church, Chambersburg. Mrs. Kowitski Episcopal Church, Westwood Hills, Calif. is a graduate of Hood College and is a Mr. Merrill is from St. Joseph, Mich. and teacher at Carlisle High School. is in a training program sponsored by Whirl• 1956 pool Corp. Cadet Gordon B; Rogers, J!· recently was 1955 named to the Deans list, signifying outstand• Nancy Sherman was married to Elmer J. ing academic achievement, at the U. S. Mili• Sanders in Pittsburgh on December 20, 1954. tary Academy at West Point. He is a mem• James W. Dow, of Haddonfield, N. J., has ber of the class of 195 7 there.

OBITUARY

1896-John S. T. Wilcox died at his home in Salisbury, Md., on December 28. He was engaged in the insurance business and was prominent in Masonic circles in the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula. Born in Sharptown, Md., on July 26,_ 1874,_ he prepared for college at the Wilmington Conference Academy. He received his Ph.D. degree from Dickinson College in 1896 and his A.M. in 1897. Following his graduation from the college, he was principal of the East New Market Academy in Maryland and later vice-principal at Cambridge, Md. He also taught at Townsend, Del., and at Huntingdon, Pa. A Methodist, he was a charter member of the Salisbury Kiwanis Club. In Masonry, he was active and a past officer in both Scottish and York Rite Bodies. In 1943 he was made a 33rd Degree Mason. He never married. His only survivor is his sister, Miss A. Dorothea Wilcox , 30 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS with whom he made his home. Another sister, Mary A. Wilcox, who graduated from the college in 1896 with Phi Beta Kappa honors, died in Salisbury on Sep• tember 8, 1923.

1903-Elmer H. Lounsbury, former deputy secretary of the State of Connecticut, died following a heart attack at his home in Hartford, Conn., on January 1. Mr. Lounsbury joined the secretary's office in 1909 as chief clerk, and became deputy secretary in 1923. He was replaced as deputy in 1939, but returned to his post as chief clerk at the time. He retired in 1947. . Born in Bridgeport, Conn., on March 24, 1877, he graduated from t?e high school there and from the college in 1903. He received his LL.B. degree m 1905 from Yale University Law School. He was the author of "Lounsbury Connecticut Corporations," which was published in 1937. . . A Mason and a Methodist, he was a member of Alpha Delta Sigma fraternity and a former Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. He was also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Connecticut and Hartford Bar Asso• ciations. He is survived! by his wife, the former Anna Ostemeyer, and a daughter, Mrs. Robert N. Ferry, of 19 Parker Drive, Pittsford, N. Y.

1906-Mrs. John H. Snoke, the former Elsie Shelton, who served as a mis• sionary to China for 16 years, died at her home in Morton, Pa., on January 24. For three years she was the editor of the Pennsylvania Bulletin of the W'I1CU. Born on October 10, 1878, she attended Dickinson Preparatory School and the college. Years later, she entered Temple University where she rceived the A.B. degree Cum Laude in 1932. She went to China as a missionary with the Dutch Reformed Church, but was a member of the Lutheran Church, Newville, Pa., at the time of her death. She is survived by her husband, John H. Snoke, to whom she was married in 1904.

1913-James Hepburn Hargis, investment broker and former Burgess of Carlisle, Pa., died after a lingering illness in the Carlisle Hospital on December 28. During his active business career he was the representative of several New York and Philadelphia investment firms. He was Burgess of Carlisle from January 1946 to January 1954, having been elected to two four-year terms. He was a member of the Borough Council 1930-34 and its president in 1932-33. During World War I, he was wounded in action while serving in France as an infantry officer with the 4th Inf., 3rd Division, A.E.F. Born in a Methodist parsonage in Germantown, Pa., on February 10, 1890, his father was the Rev. Di. James Hepburn Hargis, who graduated from the college in 1870, served as a Trustee 1880-83 and was awarded a D.D. in 1888. His mother was the former Florence Wood:ward of Carlisle. His sister, Mrs. Lucia B. Ewing, of Germ~ntowr:, graduated in 1899 andl his late sister, Jessie, graduated in 1900. He is survived by his wife, the former Madeline Jones, of Carlisle: a daughter, Ann Woodward, the wife of W. Roberts Pedrick, '40, of Glendale, Calif., a son, James H: Hargi_s, Jr_., a graduate of William & Mary, who is now engaged in a construction project m Spain; his sister, Mrs. Ewing, and three grandlc'hildren. He prepared for college at Mercersburg Academy and received his Dickinson THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 31

diploma in 1913. A member of Allison Methodist Church, he was. a past president of the Carlisle Rotary Club, the V.F.W. and the American Legion. He was active in the affairs of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and for 30 years was secretary of the Alpha Sigma Chapter House Association. He was a Life Member of the General Alumni Association of the College.

1927-Henry Smith Ambler, of R. D. No. 1, Wayne, Pa., died of heart failure on December 18 at Strafford, Pa. He was associated in the practice of law with his son, Henry S. Ambler, IV, in the firm of Ambler & Ambler, with offices in the Philadelphia Saving Fund Budding, Philadelphia. Born on April 10, 1902 at Abington, Pa., he graduated from the high school there and from the college in 1927. He _received his LLB. degree from the Temple University School of Law and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1931. A Presbyterian, he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. His other mem• berships were Philadelphia Bar Association, Pennsylvania Sons of American Revolu• tion and its Color Guard, Society of the War of 1812, Colonial Society, Overbrook Country Club and the Brodhead Fishing and Hunting Association. He is survived by his wife, the former Anne Flavell, their son, Henry S. Ambler, IV, and a grandchild, Mary Anne.

1930-Leo J. Dutko citied more than a year ago on September 24, 1953 of a heart attack in the Sacred Heart Hospital, Allentown, Pa. Born in Allentown on March 1, 1907, he transferred to Dickinson College from Mt. St. Mary's College. He was a student of the college a year and! then entered employment with the Bethlehem Steel Co. where he was a press operator and welder and a salesman. He was a member of the Catholic Church. H is survived by his wife, the former Susan B. Andrews of Nesquehoning, and their four children, Leo Joseph, Jeanne Barbara, Robert and Susan Ann.

1931-John H. Schmidt, teacher in the G. A. R. High School, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., died of a coronary occlusion at his home in Wilkes-Barre on December 6, 1952, more than two years ago. Born in Blackwood, Pa., he was the son of Paul J. Schmidt, who graduated from the Law School in 1898 and practiced 'law in Wilkes-Barre until his death on September 12, 1949. He is a graduate of the Wilkes-Barre High School and from the college in 1931 and did graduate work at Scranton University, Wilks College and Columbia University. He was a Methodist and a member of the Commons Club. He is survived by his mother, his wife and their son, John Edward, who is a plebe at the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.

1931L-William H. Dunbar, III, prominent Harrisburg attorney and president of the National Bank of Hummelstown, died in the Hershey Hospital on January 21. He was the father of Ann Dunbar, a member of the sophomore class of the college. He was a graduate of Old Harrisburg Tech ~igh School, Pennsylvania State College and from the Dickinson School of Law m 1931. He had _law offices in Harrisburg and was chairman of the Board of ('.ensors of the Dauphin County Bar and attorney for the supervisor _of Derry Township. ~fr. was a member of the Amer- ican, Pennsylvania and Dauphm County Bar Assooat1?ns. _ . He was active in the affairs of the Derry Presbyterian Church, president of the National Bank of Hummelstown and a director of the Lebanon Valley Offset Co. 32 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

He is survived by his wife, the former Harriet Siegrist, and two aaughters, Ann and Elizabeth S.; a son, William H., IV, and his mother, Mrs. Mary Dunbar, of R. D., Mechanicsburg, Pa. The family home was at Hershey, Pa.

1932L-Louis C. Gordon, attorney, of Harrisburg, Pa., died at his home there on January 27. He was 48 years of age. He practiced in Harrisburg, following his graduation from the Law School in 1932. He was a member of the board of Ohev Sholom Temple, and a member of the Elks, the Optimist Club and other civic organizations. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Fagie Cohen Gord0n; two sons, Millard and David, and by three sisters and his father.

1934--Wylie F. Smathers died nearly a year ago on April 16, 1954 at his home in Grove City, Pa., of cerebral hemorrhage. He had been with the New York Life Insurance Company and at one time with the Cooper-Bessmer Corporation. Born at Grove City on July 3, 1909, he entered Dickinson from the Soldiers Orphan School, Scotland, Pa. He is survived by his wife the former Ruthanna C. Buck and their two children, Marilyn Jane, born in 1932 and David F. born in 1939.

NECROLOGY

Mrs. Mary Esther Masland, died on December 17 at the age of 85 years. She was the mother of Frank E. Masland, Jr., '18, and Robert Paul Masland, '19. Mrs. Masland moved to Carlisle from Philadelphia six years ago and was actively associated with Allison Methodist Church. She was a life member of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church and served for a number of years as secretary of its Philadelphia branch. She was also a member of the Carlisle Civic Club.

Mrs. Helen Wile McKeehan, widow of Professor Joseph P. McKeehan of the Law School faculty, and sister of Henry F. Wde, '06, died on January 15 at the home of her son, Joseph P. McKeehan, Jr., in Glawenburg, N. J., where she had been residing since December 1, 1954. She is survived by her son, her brother and a grandson, Joseph Parker McKeehan, III. A member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Carlisle, burial was made in the Westminister Mausoleum, Carlisle.

Mrs. Marion H. Gordon, wife of William G. Gordon, '03; mother of William T. Gordon, '35; and mother of Franklin L. Gordon, '40, died after a very short illness at her home in Coatesville, Pa., on September 30, 1954.

A. F. Blessing, a graduate of Conway Hall, died suddenly at his home in Newville, Pa., on November 21. He was ra well-known highway guard rail con• tractor and a manufacturer of concrete tile. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Margaret Loughry Blessing, and a son. DIRECTORY OF ALUMNI CLUBS Dickinson Club of Altoona William P. Farrell, '21L Treasurer Jeanette Steve·ns, '10 , President Hopkin T. Rowlands, '31L Secretary George M. Raines, '12 Vice-President 930 Miners National Bank Bldg., Wllkes• Donald M. Geesey, Jr., '40. . Vice-President Barre, Pa. Rev. G. H. Ketterer, D. D., 'Q8 .. Secretary Dickinson Club of Northern New Jersey Warriors Mark, Pa. Mrs. Wm. Smethurst, '25 ..•..... President George K. Cox, '40 . , Treasurer Roy · D. Toll1ver, '31 .....• Vice-President Dickinson Club of Atlantic City Fred H. Green, Jr., '35 ••.... Secty.-Treas. Lloyd E. Spangler, '22 ..... Vlce-Preslden1> 69 Belmont Ave., North Plainfield, N. J. Mabel E. Kirk. '05 ... Secretary-Treasurer Dickinson ·Club of Ohio Dickinson Club of Baltimore Walter V. Edwards, '10 President Homer L. Respess, '17 President Robert S. Aronson, '43 ..••.. &ecty.-Treas. Catharine Ettemlller, '46 .. Vice-President P. O. Box 568, Columbus 16, Ohio Wm. B. Suter. '52 Vice-President Dickinson Club of Philadelphia Martha L. Weis, '53 Secretary Dr. Robert L. D. Davidson, '31 .. President 255 Rldge Ave., Towson 4. Md. James L. Mcintire, '35 Vice-President Theodore R. Bonwlt, '53 Treasurer Mrs. S. S. Lynch, '26 Vice-President Dickinson Club of Boston C. Wendell Holmes, '21 Secty.-Treas. Harold A. Fasick, '15 President 904 Blythe Avenue, Drexel Hlll, Pa. 'Dickinson Club of P1ttsburgh Dickinson Club of California Clarence B. Nixon, Jr., '46 ....•. President Rev. L. D. Gottshall, '22 ...... •. President James L. Bruggeman, '50 .. Vice-President Joseph Z. Hertzler, '13, Secretary-Treasurer Mrs. A. H. Bagenstose, '43 ... Secty.-Treas. 1865 Sacramento St., San Francisco, Cal. 13 McMurray Road, RD 2, Bridgeville, Pa. Dickinson Club of Chicago Dickinson Club of Readlnir-Berks John W. Garrett, '19 President Harry W. Speidel President Mrs. Wlllls.m G. Gray, '27 .. Vice-President Frederlck G. McGavln, '39 .. Vice-President Mrs. P. C.. BeHanna, '27 ..... Secty.-Treas. Mrs. W. Richard Eshelman, '43.. Sec.-Treas. 230 Bloom St., Highland Park, Ill. R. D. No. 2, Sfnklng Spring, Pa. Dickinson Club of Cleveland Dickinson Club of San Diego George G. Landis, '20 President Dr. Fred M. Uber, '26 President Mrs. H. W. Lyndall, Jr., '35 Vice-Pres. Robert S. Plummer, '42 Secty -Treas Dickinson Club of Colorado 4562 Cleveland se., San Diego, cS:llt. . Fred R. Johnson, '09 President Dickinson Club of Southern California Ruth Bigham, '14 Secretary-Treasurer Hewllngs Mumper, '10 Presldent 1040 Detroit St., Denver. Col. Joseph S. Stephens, '26 Secty.-Treas Dickinson Club of 'Delaware 3231 Midvale Ave., Los Angeles 34, ca1: J. Ohrum Small. '15 President Dickinson •Club of Southern New Jersey BenJamln N. Nelson, '28 Vlce President Evan D. Pearson, '38 President Mrs. E. J. Heck Secretary Leighton J. Heller, '23, '25L Vlce-Presldent 10 Walnut Lane, Wilmington 3, Del. Mrs. James K. Lower, '37 .'. .. Secty.-Treas. Walter F. From. '49 Treasurer 177 Johnson St., Salem, N. J. Dickinson ·Club of Hagerstown Dickinson crub of Central New Jersey H. Monroe Ridgely, '26 President Wilson P. Sperow, '14 Vice-President Royce V. Halnes, '30 President Mrs. E. o, Washabaugh, '42 .. Secty.-Treas Mrs. A. F. Winkler, '29 Vice-President Bernard L. Green, '32 Secty -Treas 231 W. Main St., Waynesboro. Pa. 1202B road st. Bank Bldg., Trenton 8, N. i. Dickinson Club of Harrisburg Mrs. Mary Rheln, '32 President Dickinson Club of Washington H. Lyrrn Edwards, '36, '39L President Lewis F. Adler, '30 Vice-President Lawrence D. Dibble, '28 V!ce-Presldent John D, Hopper, '48 Vice-President Paul A. Mangan, '34 Vice-President William w. Caldwell, '48 Sec.-Treas. Mrs. John L. Rowland, '27 Asst. Secty 3023 Duke St., Harrisburg, Pa. Maude E. W!lson, '14 Secretary Dickinson Club of Lehigh Valley 1789 Lanier Place, Washington, D. c. William A. Steckel, '42 President John Springer, '44 Treasurer Max I. Mechanic, '17 Vice-President. Dickinson Clulb O•f West Branch Valley Mrs. R. H. Grlesemer, '33 Secty.-Treas. L. Waldo Herritt, '33, '35L .....• President 1421 Lfnden St., Allentown, Pa. Dr. Wllllam D. Angle, '30 .. Vice-President Dickinson Club of Michigan Mrs. Hamilton H. Herritt, '30 Secty -Treas Roscoe O. Bonlsteel, '12 President 2()8 West Main St., Lock Haven, ·Pa. · Walter H. E. Scott, '21L •... Secty,-Treas. Dickinson Club of York 310 E. Jefferson, Detroit 32, Mich. Judge Harvey Gross, 'OIL President Dickinson Club <>f New York Dorothy M. Badders, '32 .. Vice-President Benjamin Epstein, '33 President J. R. Budding, '32, '36L .... Secty.-Treas J. Cameron Frendllch, '13 .. Vice-President 19 East Market St., York, Pa. · Miss Margaret McMullen, '51 •. Sec.-Treas. New York Alumnae Club 816 Lexington Ave., New York 21, N. Y. Mrs. Wllliam Spencer, '3rtheastern Pennsylvania Mrs. Herbert L. Davls, '21 .... Secty.-Treas. Gomer Morgan, 'llL ....••...... President 239 Harrison Ave., Highland Park, N. J. Pfan :Jo Come /Jact

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ALUMNI DAY SATURDAY JUNE 11, 1955