·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." ~~iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii--iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~l~ THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS FEBRUARY, 1955 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.