DICKIN ALUMNUS

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ADVISORY BOARD Terms eomire in 1925 Terms expire in 1986 Terms expire in 19 2 7 J. M. Rhey, ..••.... '83, '96L E. M. Biddle, Jr ••••..... '86 L. T. Appold .. ' '82 Henry R. Issacs ••••••••.• '04 Morris E. Swartz ••...... '89 Merkel Landis .•...... •. '96 G. C. Curran, '11 J. Banks Kurtz •... '93, '93L Lewis M. Bacon, Jr '02 S. W. Stauffer, '12 W. C. Clarke •...... •. •9,5 E. Foster Heller ••....•. '04 Robert B. Kistler '15 J. W. Long ...... ••. '07 Philip S. Moyer '06

GENERAL ALU MN I ASSOCIATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF OF DICKINSON COLLEGE DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW President ...... •. Lemuel T. Apncld President •.•• Justice John W. Kephart Vice-President Henry R. Isaacs First Vice-President.. Robert Hays Smith Secretary ..•...... S. Walter Stauffer Second Vice-Pres... Judge Fred B. Moser Treasurer John M. Rhey Secy-Treas .•.•.•. Joseph P. McKeehan

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE Alumni Council Holds Fall Meeting . 3 Form Inter-Fraternity Alumni Council . 5 Preparing Plans for Gymnasium . 7 Remodeling Basement Room in West College . 8 Save Our History . 9 Reopen Old East in Fitting Exercises . 11 Wage Triumphant Season on Gridiron . 13 Basket Ball Five Faces Hard Schedule . 17 Editoral , · · · .. · .. · .. · · · · . 18 Red and White in Political Arena .....•...... 20 Delaware State Officials, Name Dickinsonians . 21 Communications . 22 Four Dickinsonians on Pennsylvania Supreme Court . 24 Personals · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 26 Along the Bridal Path · · ·. · · · · · · · . · . · · . 27 Obituary · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 31 l I

to A l · d es $2 00 per year including one year's subscription umnithe mauga zine.· All communi· ' ·c ation· s s h ou ld b e ~ dd resse d to The Dickinson Alumnus, Denny Hall, Carlisle, Pa. "Entered as second-class matter May 23, 1923, at the post o!!fce at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

~3~ THE DICKINSON AL November, 1924 Alumni Council Holds Fall Meeting Eleven members of the Alumni ing the ballots and it was impossible to Council of the General Alumni Associa• notify the successful candidates and se• tion of Dickinson College and the edi• cure their presence at the Council meet• tors of the DICKINSON ALUMNUS were ing in June. present at the call of President L. T. The Amendment to Article 3, Section Appold at the second annual fall meet• 2 of the By-Laws reads as follows: ing held in the 'Penn-Harris Hotel, "To be counted, the ballot must be sent to Harrisburg, on October 31st, the night the Tellers of the Election in the self-ad• before the Gettysburg football game. Those present were President L. T. dressed envelope accompanying it, with the member's name written on the envelope, and Appold, John M. Rhey, Judge Edward must reach the Tellers at least fifteen days M. Biddle, William C. Clark, Dr. before the annual meeting. The Tellers Robert B. Kistler, Rev. John W. Long, (four in number) shall be appointed by the Merkel Landis, Lewis M. Bacon, Jr., Secretary from among the members of the Judge E. Foster Heller, Philip S. Moyer, S. W. Stauffer, Dean M. Hoffman and Alumni Association residing in Carlisle. Gilbert Malcolm. The four absentees They shall promptly certify the result of the sent messages revealing their inability count to the Secretary and to the President, to be present. Congressman ]. Banks and the Secretary shall immediately advise Kurtz was in the midst of his campaign each nominee of the number of votes cast for re-electon and Henry R. Isaacs was for each one on the ticket, designating those heading a big political campaign in duly elected." Delaware. Rev. Dr. Morris E. Swartz A greater part of the meeting was de• had been transferred from Baltimore to voted to a discussion of ways and means Chicago and could not make the trip and to better Commencement plans, and the G. C. Curran, of New York, had been President was authorized to appoint a unavoidably prevented from being pres• committee to develop and increase ent. Alumni Day activities, particularly the Plans for greater alumni activity with Alumni Parade, and to consult with a 100 per cent membership in the Alumni the College Administration or members Association, the advisability of advocat• of classes in reunion concerning Com• ing a Graduate Manager of Athletics, mencement plans. From this committee, the recognition of club activities, and which will be named in ample time, the adoption of an amendment to the definite plans are expected covering all r By-Laws changing the present system the Commencement details. of voting by mail, were a few of the The Council indicated their belief things considered by the Alumni Council that the Alumni Parade should be a after a delightful dinner had been served. costumed event with classes vying with The change in the By-Laws simply each other in novelty of regalia. From sets a new time for the closing of the the start already made in this direction, polls and now an ballots must reach the it was felt that a parade of unusual at• Tellers fifteen days before the annual tractiveness could be developed, and meeting in June. Last year, the polls that this feature could be made the most did not close until a few days before the distinguishing one of Commencement. annual Commencement meeting. The The slogan may be set up in its full result was that the Tellers were required meaning "Alumni Day for Alumni." to work almost a whole night in count- In his report, the Editor of the DICK- 4 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS N ooember, 192/

INSON ALUMNUS stated that the total The 1925 Commencement was 621 while with 72 subscriptions from members of the Law School As• Announcement has been made that sociation, the total subscription list the 1925 Commencement will not be of the magazine numbered 693. He held until June 9, which is six clays later said that after the appearance of than that of 1924. The Comrnencement the first number this year the sub• season will likely open June 5, vvit_h scriptions numbered 707. The Coun• Alumni Day on Saturday, June 6. This cil set the immediate goal for 1,000 is six month's notice to all alumni to be subscriptions and following the issuance on hand. Mark the dates when the of the present number of the magazine new 1925 calendars come from friends. a campaign will be inaugurated to re• alize this total. Belief was expressed Large Dickinson Enrollments that this number can be exceeded. About 800 students were enrolled A report was also given that there are under the Dickinson banner when the now eight Life Members in the Alumni College and Law School opened in Sep• Association and it is believed that many tember. The College opened for its o_ne more will pay the $40 required to estab• hundred forty-second academic year with lish a Life Membership. This may be another full enrollment of about 500, paid directly to John M. Rhey, Treas• while the Law School exceeded all pre• urer, Carlisle, Pa., either in full or in vious figures with a total of 309 stu• two payments of $20 each six months dents. apart. A Life Membership makes the With the exception of Professor Ely, member eligible for life for election to who did not return. to the College, the office in the Association, gives the right faculty of the College is the same as to vote in all matters, and carries with that of last year. 00i opening day there it a life subscription to the magazine of were 488 students enrolled but later the Association. more were admitted. Of this number A vote of thanks was extended to the 87 were Seniors, 109 Juniors, 130 Harrisburg Alumnae Club for the ac• Sophomores and 162 Freshmen. It will tivities of its members in the plans and be noted that there arc now more stu• work of the last Commencement. This dents in the two lower classes than in organization, it will be recalled, operated the whole College just ten years ago. a tea garden rnfeteria on the campus There were no changes in the Law Alumni Day and added greatly to the School faculty with the opening of an• Alumni . Parade. It also prepared the other year, when for the first time in the rooms where classes held reunions and history of the school enrollment reached co-operated jn rn\any of the detailed and exceeded 300. Of the 309 enrolled, duties of Commencement. · 31 are College electives and 278 are full-time law students. A larger dele• The Secretary was directed to write gation from New Jersey than ever be• President Morgan to enlist his aid in ef .. fore and also a large representation fr~m forts to secure reduced railroad rates for Delaware feature the enrollment while alumni and friends of the College for many of the students are residents of the next Commencement. Pennsylvania. There was a very interesting discus• Practically all of the Freshmen who sion with reference to the advisability entered College this year were chosen of seeking the establishment of the of• from the upper two-thirds of their high fice of Graduate Manager of Athletics, school classes, and almost a hundred and it was the sense of the meeting that and fifty were turned away because of this matter should be investigated and the limited number to be admitted and reported on at the June meeting. for scholastic reasons. November, I924 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS .5 Form Inter-Fraternity Alumni Council An Inter-Fraternity Alumni Council, the Inter-Fraternity Alumni Council be• to co-operate with the student Inter-Fra• fore Commencement of 1925 and the ternity Council, was formed at a meet• election by the fraternity chapters of ing of alumni representatives of each their representative members. The reso• fraternity of the College held in Denny lution was as follows: Hall on the morning of November' 1, Resolved that the representatives of the during the Home Coming celebration. several fraternities or clubs here assembled What might be expected from such a shall be known as the Inter-Fraternity Council is shown by the adoption of a Alumni Council, to remain as such until Commencement week of 1925, with its pres• resolution reading that "it is the sense ent officers, when each fraternity or club of this Council that fraternity house shall elect from its alumni two members to residence should be based on scholarship serve for the ensuing year on this Council. primarily." Resolved further that the purpose of this Fifteen alumni members of the vari• organization shall be to foster in the Col• lege student body a primary regard for the ous fraternities from widely divergent welfare of the College as it may be secured localities met at the invitation of Presi• throuzh the co-operation of these several dent Morgan. He invited one man fraternities or dubs. from each fraternity and the active chapters were asked to appoint another From the Agenda prepared by Presi• alumnus as a representative .. dent Morgan it was shown that the At the outset President Morgan Scholarship of fraternity members fell off stated that he had not called the meet• considerably during the second semester. ing "to correct impending disasters, but This question led to a lengthy discussion with the idea of co-operation." He pre• in which methods of stimulating scholar• sented an Agenda setting forth some ship were considered. One of the existing conditions and then withdrew, Council members argued that the stand• The following were present: Thomas ing of fraternity men should not be based L. Jones, '00, and Dr. Robert B. Kisr• on scholarship alone as some chapters ler, '15, Phi ; R. W. stressed representation in athletics, or Springer, a former faculty member, and some form of student activity and that A. M. Witwer, '00, ; A. H. a plan should be evolved to estimate the Aldridge, '12, and W. A. Hearn, '14, value of such participation and such ; G. Harold Baker, '10, and credit should be counted in computing Robert Woodward, '17, Kappa Sigma; fraternity standing. Dean Filler stated R. P. Masland, '18, Alpha Chi Rho; that he could prepare such a plan and S. W. Stauffer, '12, Sigma Alpha Epsi• would present it at the June meeting of lon; Robert F. Rich, '07, Phi Kappa the Council. A resolution that some Psi; Dean M. Hoffman, '02, Phi Delta system of scholastic rewards to the fra• Theta; wsn« K. Glauser, '12, and ternity and non-fraternity units might [ Gilbert Malcolm, '15, . prove beneficial was laid on the table Dean M. G. Filler attended to reply to until the June meeting of the Council. any questions concerning the College It was admitted that several frater• administration. Thomas L. Jones was nity chapters were led by competition to chosen president of the Council and A. spend considerable money indiscreetly on h. Aldridge secretary. social functions, and it may be that some While many questions were discussed action will eventually be taken by the the Council felt that it did not have Council on this question. It was sug• authority to take definite action as the gested that the members of the Council meeting had been called by invitation. take up this matter with their respective A resolution was adopted looking for• chapters and learn the attitude of the ward to a fully authorized formation of active men in seeking to develop a plan 6 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS November, I924 which will curtail extravagance in social affairs. The following resolution was Plan 50th Class Reunion adopted: This letter 'Was receioed befor6e plans were announced for the '76-'8 Resolved that the Inter-Fraternity Council meeting next June. Perhaps the two be invited to consider the limitation of month· members of '76 who ar~ eager ;6 ly and occasional expense per man of all celebrate their 5oth Reunion. in I9 fraternity entertainments. can attend the coming 'meeting, 934 Third St., The present system of rushing was the Santa Monica, Cal. subject of animated discussion, and it To The Editor: appeared to be the consensus of opinion Rev. Wright Eckersley and I are that some changes are needed. It was graduates of the Class of 1876. We declared that the present rushing agree• were chums all through our oollege ment is an admission that fraternity course and his family are occupymg chapters do not trust each other and the upper flat of our house. . Although California is a long dis• for that reason find it necessary to post tance from Pennsylvania, and we a fine. One of the Council, who ac• both will be 75 years old in a month cepted in part the present system, sug• or two, we hope, if we are alive and gested that more frequent all-college well, to visit our Alma Mater at the entertainments, where expenses would be College Commencment of r926. I never thought that I would he alive to limited, might be one of the solutions visit Old Dickinson a half a century of present evils. A resolution permitting after our graduation but we are both promiscuous rushing throughout the fall in good health at p~esent. I wonder but forbidding pledging before the sec• if some member of our class could ond week in January was laid on the not find time to agitate this matter? Give our kindest regards to any who table until the June meeting of the may remember us. Council. Yours fraternally, JAMES BLACKLEDGE. '76-'86 Starting In Time The opening gun in a plan to hold the meetings at Cornmenc:cment of these first annual meeting of Classes 1876 to classes and in a circular letter just is• 1886 at Commencement in June 1925 sued states "the first move to promote was fired during the late summer when this is to have the Boys from '76 to '86 the '80-'84 Reunion Committee became acquaint themselves with the where• abouts and welfare of one another." an Organization Committee taking in the '80-'84 group and adding the Clas• A systematic plan has been evolved to supply The Dickinsonian and the Dick• ses of 1876, '77, '78 and '79 and those of inson Alumnus with "personals" and 1885 and '86. · thus -to 1have the members of these Out of the great Commencement rally classes know each other intimately. '80-'84 enjoyed last June has come this permanent organization with a commit• tee headed by James R. Reaney, Jr., '82, A Strong Representation of Baltimore, as president, and Rev. Dr. Four Dickinsonians have been elected F. F. Bond, '83, of 3509 N. 18th St., officers of the Carlisle Chamber of Com- Philadelphia, as secretary. The ?ther merce. members of the committee are Edwm A. Frank Masland, '18, has been elected Linville, '81 ; Walter A. Powell, '78 ; first vice-president, and Merkel Landis, Dr. J. Warren Harper, '80; Col. Geo. '96 has been chosen second vice-president, C. Stull, '82; Thomas ~· :1Zaw,lins, '82 while Professor Wilbur H. Norcross, and Rev. John W. Perkinpine, 84. '07, is president of the Chamber, and The Committee plans to hold annual Hugh R. Miller, '97, is secretary. J '7 November, 1924 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS I Preparing Plans for New Gymnasium

FRONT VIEW OF PROPOSED GYMNASIUM The first sketch of the plans for the that for the past few years, when Dick• new College gymnasium were received inson was represented by basketball from the College architect, Wm. W. teams of championship calibre, the whole Emmert, of Baltimore, Md., in Novem• student body or even as many as desired ber and show his conception of what the could not witness the contests and all front elevation of the proposed structure town supporters or alumni were turned should be. His drawing is reproduced away. It was found necessary to assign in the above illustration. dates when certain proportionate parts While funds are not yet available for of the student body could see their own the erection of this great addition to the team in action. This condition will ex• equipment of the College, every effort ist under present full enrollments until is being made to secure this necessary the new gymnasium is completed. building as soon as possible. The pres• When completed the plans for the ent gymnasium is obsolete in many ways new gymnasium will provide adequate and with the great growth in the num• facilities for all students and spectators, ber of students is inadequate to serve dressing quarters, an indoor track, and a their needs. It does not contain satis• swimming pool. factory dressing quarters, nor is it large No site has as yet been selected for enough or suited for the large classes in the new gymnasium, though some feel physical training. that the present location of South Col• Perhaps one of the clearest indict• lege would provide the most suitable ments against the present gymnasium is place. Few sites are available. 111

8 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS November, I924 Remodeling Basement Room in West College L. T. Appold, '82, vice-president of the Colonial Trust Company, Baltimore, for such purposes, and will also be used and president of the General Alumni as a reading and lounging room. Two Association of Dickinson College, is re• book cases will be built in the room and long benches will be placed along the modeling the northeast corner room in walls. the basement of Old West. The Col• lege is indebted to Mr. Appold for The fire place will be rebuilt and will Memorial Hall, and again he is mani• be more attractive than the one which festing his loyalty in this new work. was originally placed in this room. A William W. Emmert, college archi• new tile floor will be laid which will be tect prepared the plans for this change surrounded by a marble base, and the ceilings and walls will be replaced and and has made several trips to Carlisle refinished. to inspect the room, and the work al• ready done. As this room for some reason was al• The room which has been used regu• ways damp, the first step in the work larly for the weekly meetings of the was to tear down all of the plaster to Athletic Association and other College the bare wall, and to put on a heavy organizations will continue to be used coating of pitch to overcome this condi• tion before all of the work is done. Annual Home Coming in Fall The practicability of an annual "Home Coming Celebration" in the fall seemed answered in this vear's celebra• was demonstrated October 31st and tion that there should be an annual Home Coming every fall. There has November Ist when scores of alumni came to Harrisburg or Carlisle to at• been some objection to setting the date tend one of the events of these two full for the Dickinson-Gettysburg game as days. this is usually played in Harrisburg and The night before the Dickinson-Get• many cannot then go to Carlisle. What are the suggestions of the alumni? tysburg game, there were many alumni at Harrisburg hotels beside those at• tending the Alumni Council meeting Sorority Joins National there. They were simply getting to the The Zeta Eta Phi Fraternity, one of scene of battle in time. the local sororities was recently installed The same night of October 31st, a as the Beta Beta chapter of the Zeta large number of alumni came to Car• Tau Alpha. National officers partici• lisle to attend the services in the re• pated in the ceremonies held at the home opening of Old East and ·many more of Mrs. Fred P. Mohler and a reception were present the next morning who were was given in Memorial Hall to which interested in the meeting of the Inter• the student body was invited. Fraternity Alumni Council. It seemed that everyone who at• tended the events mentioned and hun• Views and News dreds more who had been absent were The ALUMNUS solicits the views and all present at the Dickinson-Gettysburg news of its readers. Its interest and game. effectiveness .as a constructive alumni journal depend in large measures on that Many alumni; especially those who sort of cooperation. The ALUMNUS is teach, who cannot usually attend Com• neither a College administration nor an mencement were delighted in the op• undergraduate periodical. It is essen• portunity ;o come to Carlisle and ~nd tially an . their classmates on hand. The question "SHOOT YOUR STUFF." November, I924 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 9 Save Our History By President ]. H. MORGAN Dickinson College has a history rich in catalogues, programs of commencement interest, if it can be collected and pre- and other exercises, letters from and to served, and several of Dickinson's loyal those closely connected with the earlier sons have gathered parts of great value- life of the College, and countless other notably Professor Himes, Dr. Crooks, material of interest to us here as the . and Judge Biddle. basis for collecting our rich history. These, however, were hampered by Of especial value would be papers on the limited material at their command, the very early life of the College, cata- as they well knew; much of the material logues especially and letters respecting they needed was beyond their reach. Pos- the life of the College. From 1835 to sibly some of it has been irretrievably date we have a fairly good file of cata• lost, as has been the fate of so much of logues, lacking a few numbers, 1840, the early history of our American insti- 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1855, tutions; but much of it is possibly yet 1856, 1867. Fortunately we have available if we can collect it. copies of the others, but only one of each. Some years since I secured the minutes We should have duplicate copies of them of the trustees of the College from 1783 all, for they are too precious to be liable to 1824. A few months before her to loss by accident to one lone copy; and death the daughter of a graduate of the nine copies for the nine years lack• eighty years ago sent me two old cata- ing are sadly needed. logues among her father's papers-cata- Early volumes of the Microcosm and logues for the years 1811 and 1812. The Dickinsonian are lacking in some cases daughter of Robert Lamberton sent me and incomplete in others. These are in a commencement program of her father's the garrets or cellars of some of our older class of 1843. A resident of Carlisle some alumni or their children. A casual years since sent to the College President search would bring them forth and they the original letters of President Nesbit to might be sent where their value would the Trustees in Carlisle on his arrival be very great 1n making possible a in Philadelphia from in June, reasonably continuous and complete 1785. story of the life of this venerable college. These things show what might be Will' you not accept this as an ap- done on a much larger scale. In many peal, an S. 0. S. call, while you pre old collections are copies of our early yet able to help? Big Church Changes Involve Dickinsonians Dickinsonians figured conspicuously erected at Fifth Avenue and Ninetieth in recent church developments in New Street, opposite the residence of Mrs. York City. The Rev. Dr. Henry B. Andrew Carnegie. The new structure Darlington, 'IO, is to become rector of will be ready for occupancy in Decem• a $3,000,000 edifice resulting from the ber, 1925. merger of the Episcopal Church of the The title of youngest rector in the Beloved Disciple with the Episcopal diocese falls upon Dr. Darlington, Church of the Heavenly Rest, New whose father is Bishop James H. Dar• York City, and the Rev. Dr. Frederick lington of Harrisburg, where the son B. Harris, '09, has resigned the pastor• resided when he entered Dickinson. ate of Grace Methodist Church, that Dr. Harris has assumed his new post city, to become pastor of the Foundry at Washington. The Foundry Church Methodist Church of Washington, D. C. is regarded as one of the leaders in na• Dr. Darlington's new church will be tional . /Ill

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. I November, I924 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 11 Reopen Old East in Fitting Exercises With fitting exercises "Old East," took place, and a special program was thoroughly renewed, was reopened in held. Addresses were made by Hon. what was largely a home coming celebra• Edward W. Biddle, '70, President of tion on the night of October 31st and the Board of Trustees, and John M. the morning of November 1st. A large Rhey, '83, a member of the Board, both number of alumni, parents of students, of whom with President Morgan were and friends of the College participated in charge of the work done on Old East. with the student body in the celebration. Fallowing their addresses, the Glee Club While a few days after the opening of the College sang, President Morgan of College, the building was ready for made his address, and the assembly sang, occupancy, the formal opening to the "Noble Dickinsonia." public did not take place until October The special program prepared for the 31st, and it was then the center of inter• exercises gives the following history of est. At first glance the returning alum• Old East:- nus may not be struck by the changed "East College was built during the appearance in the exterior of the build• scholastic year 1835-36 and was occupied ing, so well has its fine old appearance by students for the first time in 1836-3 7. been retained. Many however, will Forty-six years later, 1882, it was thor• notice at once that the entrance is no oughly renovated, during the presidency longer made from four wooden stair• of James Andrew McCauley, LL. D., ways to the second floor, but through of the college class of 184 7. Now forty fine colonial doors on the first floor of years later it is again renovated. This the building, and that the old entrances later renovation probably restores the have been replaced with attractive co• original appearance of the building and lonial windows. No one however, who makes it thoroughy modern in sanitation, ever roomed in Old East will be able lighting and general equipment for the to believe that the interior is in the same convenience, comfort, and health of its building which he occupied. The whole occupants. interior is new and in all East College "From 1836 ta 1890 the eastern part is now a thoroughly modern, equipped of the building, the half section called . · the fourth section and part of the third A large number of alumni were pres• section, was used as the residence of the ent, who came to take in the exercises presidents of the college. In 1890, how• before attending the Dickinson-Gettys• ever, during the presidency of George burg game, and some came for the Inter• Edward Reed, LL. D., the present Fraternity Alumni Council meeting, or "President's Mansion" was acquired. the meeting of the Alumni Council. The "While the building has been prima• alumni rejoiced in the pep meeting held rily a dormitory during all its eighty• on Friday evening, October 31st, which eight years, it is interesting to note that opened the special exercises, as it was the it was also used for recitation purposes, booster stunt before the classic football excepting the President's home, the whole contest. Immediately after this meeting southern side of the third floor until the a reception was held in. Memorial Hall, renovation of 1882; and the whole north and then the doors of Old East were side of the second floor thereafter until thrown open. Refreshments were served Denny Hall was opened in 1896. in the Social Rooms of Old West, and later the fraternity houses each held open "Since 1896, 'Old East' has been used house. exclusively as a dormitory, though one On Saturday morning, at the Chapel college fraternity occupies the first sec• Exercises, the actual recognition of the tion, another the fourth section, and the completion of the work on East College the second section." .. November, I92¢ THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 13

Wage Triumphant Season on Gridiron

Crowning a glorious season of seven upon whom Lightner counted most, lying victories and four defeats in a great in the Carlisle Hospital where that day victory over "Charlie" Moran's foot• he was operated on for appendicitis. ball stalworths who wore the Orange Later events proved the superstitious of the Bucknell Bisons, by the score of were right when they shook their heads 11 to 7, the Dickinson eleven coached on learning of Harter's operation, for by "Silent Joe" Lightner on Thanks• almost every week some regular was hurt giving Day closed one of the most suc• either in scrimmage or in a game. The cessful seasons the Red and White has jinx followed "Silent Joe" all season un• enjoyed for years. The team scored til the hour when he wanted to repeat 118 points to the opponent's total of 98, the victory he hung up on Bucknell winning seven games, losing to three col• in 1923. leges and one service team. Many alumni and other followers of Facing a sched- the team declared ule of eleven games the season a suc• with a green squad 1924 J?OOTBALJ, RECORD cess and w e r e "Silent Joe" faced Dickinson 0 Allegheny 7 ready to close the one of the tough• book for 1924 Dickinson H Villanova 0 est problems which when on the first F. & M. 7 troubied any foot• Dickinson 20 day of November, ball coach, when Dickinson 6 Lehigh 15 Gettysburg was de• the training season Dickinson 25 Albright 0 feated before a opened the day DJCJHNSON 20 GETTYSBURG 12 crowd of 8,000 in the annual Home• after Labor Day. Dickinson 0 U. S. Marines 14 Not only in the coming Game at number of games, Dickinson 0 Muhlenberg 36 I s 1 a n d P a r k, but in the order Dickinson 7 P. M. C. 0 Harrisburg, in the they had to be Dickinson 15 Delaware 0 gridiron classic of the season by the played he found DICIUNSON 11 BUCJ{NELL 7 many difficult ob• score of 20 to 12. The victory was stacles. Lightner Dickinson 118 Opponents 98 immediately called sweet after five "Haps" F r a n k, consecutive defeats great end of the in as many years .. Penn State team of 1923 to act as his at the hands of Coach Wood's Bullets. assistant and together they labored to While the material which reported develop the most successful team since for preliminary training was the best the war. Throughout the year, injuries seen on Biddle Field in many year, placed great handicaps on "Silent Joe," what Lightner faced in producing vic• and it was only in the last game on the tories is shown by the fact that in the schedule that the coach was able to call opening game of the season he started on any member of the squad and send two letter men while eleven letter men him into action without fear that he was endangering an injured man or run• wore the jerseys of . ning the risk of disabling a man on the The game was played in Meadville, Pa., eve of a bigger game. The morning of and proved a hard trip for the opening the second day of the preliminary train• contest. It was a stubborn battle, and ing season found "Ebbie" Harter, last though the opponent's goal line was year's able half back and one of the men crossed twice only to be called back each 14 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS No-uemb er, I924

eleven which had held the Princeton team to a scoreless tie and threatened several times to score. The Brown had opened the season a week earlier with a 12 to 0 victory over Gettysburg. Things looked tragic for the Red and White warriors. An enthusiast was heard to ask Lightner, "Joe, have we got a chance?" "Silent Joe's" answer might make a good motto. It was "Dickinson doesn't go anywhere to get licked." Dickinson "got licked" in the Lehigh game, but the 15 to 6 score does not tell the story. Eight first downs to Lehigh's five reveals a great conflict. A few minutes in the early part of the game gave Lehigh two breaks, one a blocked punt, which resulted in two touchdowns. Thereafter, Dickinson was master. The words of a former president of the Col· lege were recalled when one alumnus was heard to say "This is the only moral victory I ever saw." Coach "Haps" Benfer, former Car• lisle boy, hopeful of victory brought an aggressive, alert team to Carlisle when Albright appeared on the following Saturday. The first half ended with the teams in a scoreless tie, clue apparent• ly to overconfidence. The steam roller functioned in the second half and four touchdowns were scored. The final re• HEAD COACH LIGHTNER sult gave Dickinson 25 and Albright 0. "Silent Joe" has won twelve games and lost six, Closed doors and secret practice was one to a service team, since he came to Dickinson in 1923. His teams have twice been victors over the order at Biddle Field for the next Bucknell, Delaware, P. M. C., Albright and Villa• week, and with Homecoming Day, Car• nova. Thl.s year, Gettysburg and F. & M. were added to the victory I ist. lisle and Harrisburg thronged with re• turning alumni. All the thrill and time on a penalty, Allegheny scored a color of a classic gridiron encounter well ·earned 7 to 0 victory." abounded as· a beautiful day dawned for The following week on Biddle Field, the annual Battle of Gettysburg. Hours a beautiful game resulted in a 14 to 0 before the game, Harrisburg became the victory over Villanova, which lost to the mecca for the supporters of both teams strong Rutgers team by the same score and shortly after noon both a week earlier. staged parades through the business sec• Showing flashes of offensive power, tion of the city and out to Island Park though apparently not opening the full where the game was plaved. Confident bag of tricks, the team rode to a fine of victory and headed by the college band victory on the next Saturday at Biddle in their fine uniforms and waving the Field when Franklin and Marshall was Red and White, the Dickinson rooters defeated by the score of 20 to 7. were first on the field. The Gettysburg At that moment the football world throng. mindful of five straight victories was heralding the strength of the Lehigh followed soon afterward. Nosoemb er, I924 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 15

Fear that the "Gettysburg Jinx" would not be broken rested in many hearts at the end of the first half, though Dickinson scored a touchdown in the opening minutes of the game. A 45 yard penalty affected the machine and before the end of the half Gettysburg was leading by the score of 12 to 7. The fears of the intermission were soon swept away when a rejuvenated Dickinson team swept through the Gettysburg eleven in the second half, and joyous, happy throats joined in "Alma Mater" when the official's whistle ended the battle with the score 20 to 12, and fren• zied students carried off the team to the dressing rooms on their shoulders. Battered and bruised in the Gettys• burg game, and with only such rest as Sunday and Monday mixed with a trip to Philadelphia could give while afford• ing no opportunity fen practice, the squad met the powerful, service team wearing the colors of the Quantico Marines at on Election Day. Fighting in spite of their injuries, and with several varsity men on the bench, the team challenged the motto of the Marines that they are "the first to fight." The outstanding prowess of Goettge, a remarkable Marine half back, helped to administer the 14 to 0 defeat. With only three days to prepare for "HAPS" FRANK Muhlenberg, which was in the midst of Penn State's star end of 1923 who served well as a wonderful season and fresh from hold• Assistant Coach. ing Lehigh to a 5 to 0 score, Coach were on the wrqng end of the 7 to 0 Lightner found that what Gettysburg score in the game played at Chester. had nor done, the Marines had. It was The following week, the Wilmington almost impossible to hold practice and alumni and friends were able to forget

~\ a limping, beaten team took the field the panic of two years ago, when Dickin• for the contest. For a time, the Allen• son triumphed over the elements, the wet town machine was held at bay but the field and Delaware in a finely played storm broke and the visitors flashed a game by the score of 15 to 0 deceptive, powerful attack which was A year ago, Coach Lightner startled not to be daunted and administered the the football world when his team tri• only black spot in the season in a defeat umphed over Bucknell by the score of by the score of 36 to 0. 14 to 10. Few felt that he could repeat Two Saturdays of rain and snow fol• on Thanksgiving Day of 1924 for Buck• lowed with switches in the line-up neces• nell under Coach Moran was closing sitated by injuries but with the squad one of its greatest gridiron seasons. The gaining a "second wind." Dickinson's Orange warriors had lost only to La• former coach "Si" Pauxtis tutored his fayette by a 21 to 3 score, and had de• charges at P. M. C. well but the Cadets feated Western Maryland, Gallaudet, 16 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS November, I924 Muhlenberg, Georgetown, Third Army, Harriers Running Well Gettysburg, Navy and Rutgers. Buck• The cross country runners developed nell in ea.ch game had shown remarkable under Professor F. E. Craver's guidance offensive strength and ended the winning have been meeting with fine success this streak of Rutgers which with the Uni• fall. Though the team lost to Lehigh versity of Pennsylvania was one of the by a 29 to 26 score on Oct. 18, the only unbeaten teams in the East. Dickinsonians in the stadium for the The loyal Dickinson rooters confident football game cheered when F. C. Bay• that a great game would be played for• ley, '26, entered the enclosure and sook their Thanksgiving Day dinners crossed the finish line first winning a and journeyed to Lewisburg. While they equalled the crowd of Bucknellians hard grind over a course of 4.8 miles. A moment later, D. R. Morgan, '28, in the fine new stadium the Orange has finished third. erected, they were chafing under the im• plication a large poster strung near one The strong Muhlenberg team was of the entrances said: defeated in a race at Allentown by the same score, 29 to 26. All alumni may not know that in a cross country run BUCKNELL 12 RUTGERS 7 the team with the low score wins. In this meet over a five mile course, Bayley CHAMPIONS OF THE EAST was first, Morgan finished fourth and Allen Klaus, '27 was fifth. DICKINSON NEXT In the Middle Atlantic States Cross Country Championships at Van Court• Dickinson wasn't "NEXT." Save for land Park, New York City, on Thanks• two great end runs by a fleet half back giving Day over a course six and a which resulted in Bucknell's one touch• quarter miles long and in a very large down and seven points, the Dickinson field of runners, Bayley finished sixth team outplayed, outgeneraled, outfought and Morgan twentieth. The keen and out-everything-elsed the great Buck• competition in this race is well shown in nell eleven. Taking the ball on a steady the fact that Bayley in finishing sixth march down the field in the second half was but fifty seconds behind the winner a touchdown was scored and then from who ran the distance in 32 minutes. 31 seconds. . an almost impossible angle a field goal was kicked by Nye from the 38 yard Education Worth $72,000 line, and finally a safety tallied the last The cash value of education to its two points bringing the final count to possessor is $72,000, according to Dean Dickinson 11, Bucknell 7. The spirit of E. W. Lord, of the Boston the team throughout the year was well College of Business Administration. The portrayed in a single play in this bitter cash value of a high school education is. contest, Fiercely tearing through their placed at $33,000. opponent's line, a Bucknell man was The report gives the average maxi• tackled behind his own goal line for a mum income of the untrained man as safety. $1200; that of the high school graduate Comparative scores mean little in foot• as $2200, and of the college graduate ball but do they mean that Dickinson as $6000. The total earnings of each flashed a championship team? Dickinson of the three types, up to the age of sixty, defeated Bucknell, who defeated Rutgers, are placed ot $45,000, $78,000 and who defeated Lafayette, who defeated $150,000 respectively. Dean Lord esti• Pittsburgh, who defeated Penn State, mates that, while the untrained man at who held Penn, the undefeated team of the age of fifty begins to drop toward the East and admittedly a championship dependence, the college man reaches his team, to a scoreless tie. maximum earning capacity at sixty. November, 1924 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 17 Basketball.Five Faces Hard Schedule With three of the five men who have The season opens with a trip to New brought fame to Dickinson on the basket• York when the Brooklyn Pharmacy Col• ball floor in the past three years lost lege will be met on December 12th and through graduation, the quintet now C. C. N. Y. on December 13th. A being developed by Coach McAndrews game with the Mt. Alto Forestry five faces one of the hardest schedules ever in Carlisle on December 17th completes confronting a Dickinson team. Games the contests before the Christmas vaca• with C. C. N. Y., Amherst, Williams, tion. Penn and Princeton are sprinkled be• Ursinus and Haverford will be met tween contests with Gettysburg, Haver• on January 16th and 17th on a trip to ford, Temple, and other formidable Collegeville and Haverford, and the rivals. University of Pennsylvania game will "Mack" has a big task before him in be played in Philadelphia, January 31st. working out a combination to equal the The team will play at Gettysburg, quintet of the last three seasons. The February 4th and will meet Temple at J ohnstons, two of the best forwards ever home on February 7th. A New Eng• seen on a Dickinson floor, and Wallace, land trip will follow, the quintet meet• who was picked as an All-Eastern center, ing Williams on Lincoln's Birthday and were graduated last June. There re• Amherst on February 14th. Temple main Irvin and Kline, last year's guards. will be met in Philadelphia on February More than thirty candidates answered 18th and then three games will be played the first call for practice. "Mack" in February in Carlisle with Juniata on states that there is considerable good ma• the 21st, Mt. St. Mary's on the 25th terial in the squad, and is looking for• and Gettysburg on the last day of the ward to a successful season in spite of month. the hard schedule. The members of last 's five will be the year's Junior Varsity are all battling for opponent in the closing game of the sea• the open varsity berths. son to be played at Princeton, March 4.

Cornell's Co-ed Problem Receives Far-Flung Publicity Under the heading "Soprano Cheer• A striking illustration of the far• ing," the Cornell Daily Sun disapproves reaching effects of publicity being given of co-eds in the cheering sections at foot• to Dickinson has been shown in the ap• ball games. Among other things it de• pearance of an article in the "Times of plores the cheering of last season and India", a Bombay publication, telling of adds "If finally we are to boast of our the Dickinson Solids Hydrometer, re· cheering prowess, women must be pro• cently perfected by Dr. E. A. Vuilleu• hibited from participation. U ndergradu• mier, head of the chemistry department. ates should .weep that like the modern The article appeared in the issue of smoking car there is evidently to be no August 29th under the heading, "The odor of masculine aloofness about the Hydrometer, a New Test for Solids." cheering section. A clipping of the story has been received "As a matter of fact mixed duets of by Doctor Vuilleumier from the Inter• 'Cornell, I Yell, Yell, Yell, Cornell' do national Press-Cutting Bureau. The not particularly enhance the effect of India newspaper picked-up the article cheering. Feminine squeals of glee and from the "Blast Furnace and Steel screams of fear are charming in their Plant," an engineering publication. place, but that place is not section E G, R. W. Crist, '23, prepared the article the cheering section of the Cornell cres• for the Pittsburgh periodical with the cent." assistance of Doctor Vuilleumier. 18 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS November, 1924

ED1ITORIAL

FOOTBALL ELATION ISTINGUISHED honors for graduates, wide recognition of high scholastic D standards, conquests in debate and oratory, huge bequests to endowment funds and kindred matters all thrill the soul of the Dickinsonian, but the real ecstacy comes with a successful football eleven. And indisputably the ecstacy was genuine this year. The season was gratifying in many ways. It demonstrated among other things the importance of likely material, the results of efficient coaching, the value of team-spirit, the loyalty of undergraduates and the inevitable reaction of pride which every college graduate feels in the triumph of his alma mater's eleven. For the team to have gone through a schedule of eleven games, hard ones and not ideally distributed, and to have secured seven victories out of the ten college games on the schedule is a distinction that warms the heart of the Dickinsonian and commands the respect of others. One of the most admirable features of the season was the team's gameness. It was as plucky an eleven as ever wore the colors. It was never beaten in spirit, even when it limped into battle and it played as furiously, often more furiously, at the end of the contest than at its beginning. Despite the agitation in intercollegiate circles about the encroachment of the alumni on undergraduate athletics, especially football, the- fact remains that nothing contributes so much to a healthy and wholesome alumni interest in alma mater as the fortunes of a winning team. This is as true of the great university as of Old Siwash. The amazing thing is that more endowment drives are not timed for the conclusion of a successful football season. Never is the average graduate so loyal and generous as immediately after his team makes good. And for making good, Dickinsonians extend their felicitations to Coach Lightner, Assistant Coach Frank, Captain "Jimmy" Roth, his plucky team-mates, the too oft forgotten scrubs and to all others who participated in one of the most successful seasons in the history of the college.

ALUMNI COUNCIL FUNCTIONS HE meeting of the Alumni Council at Harrisburg in November indicates the responsibility, this body feels for promoting the interests of the alumni associa• Ttion. While its decisions were not spectacular, its discussions indicate that it ap• preciates the fact that it is entrusted with the leadership in alumni activities. · A change in the rules providing for an earlier count of the ballots of the annual election so that the winners may be notified in time to attend the Council's Commencement meeting is somewhat routine in character, but the Council's ap• pointment of a special steering committee for Commencement Alumni Day has far• reaching possibilities. Add the discussion of a graduate manager of athletics and consideration of a home-coming day or "week-end" party in Carlisle in the midst of the football season and the meeting of the Council assumes an importance to Dickinsonians. Obviously Alumni Day, Commencement Week, needs more direction than it has had. It warrants more careful planning than has been given it. A pilot committee can remedy this situation. Naturally the committee will concentrate N ovember, r924 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 19

on the costume parade. Dickinson has not kept pace with sister institutions in this circus feature of its Commencement program. A brave start has been made with gratifying progress since, but its possibilities are far from exhausted. _It is the experience of most colleges that of all their Commencement features, nothing pulls back the former student so certainly as the "high-jinks" incident to the "pee-rade" with its gay costumes, its floats and the stunts the returning classes present when the parade reaches the athletic field. "Alumni Day for Alumni" is not a selfish slogan. It is an appeal from the alumni to donate something of spirit, enthusiasm and service to alma mater.

AUTUMN ALUMNI DAY HO UGH this year's football season is ended, the next one should not be con• T~ludcd without giving adequate consideration to the proposal that an Alumni Day or an Old Grads Day be established in connection with some royal gridiron battle. Dickinson is not only out of step with other colleges in the lack of 'Such. an alumni reunion at the college during the football season, but it is missing the bene• fits of such a home-corning. The nearest approach to an Alumni Day is the annual Gettysburg-Dickinson game at Harrisburg early in November. Lately this game has brought to that citv a considerable number of Dickinsonians and been the occasion also for a meeting of the Council of the General Alumni Association. There have been suggestions that a lively Dickinson luncheon be held that day prior to the game or a booster dinner the night before. Such ideas deserve consideration, but it seems more logical to strive for the same sort of thing at Carlisle,-the college home of the alumni. The game need not be the Gettysburg game. Another equally spirited contest would serve as well. T11e important thing is to stage a program at Dickinson in the fall that would attract the alumni there, just as they return for commencement.

CLUB DINNERS HE annual dinner season of college alumni clubs is just around the corner. T Yale, Princeton, Penn, Amherst, Penn State, Bucknell and other graduates who cluster in cities and towns are planning their annual banquets. Dickinson men can do no less and remain loyal. Under the present schedule, Dickinsonians in and about New York, Scranton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Harrisburg and Carlisle can be relied upon to toast Alma l\!Iater sometime during the winter. Dinners in these centers are notable Dickinson events. There should be no letting clown in interest. To this list should be added many other groups. Williamsport, Altoona, Johnstown, Pittsburgh, Washington, Reading, Easton or Allentown are only some of the Dickinsonian centers where graduate dinners should be held every year. Obviously successful dinners require forethought and reasonable promotion. \Vhere clubs are organized, this provision has been made. Where clubs are yet to be organized, the initiative must rest with some person who has interest and loyalty of his Alma Mater sufficiently at heart to lead off. But if ever there was warrant for Dickinson men to gather in exultation and pride over their college affiliations, it is this year of exceptional football prestige and notable alumni development. 20 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Nooember, z924 The Red and White in the Political Arena

J. BANKS KURTZ, '93, '93L JOSHUA W. SWARTZ, '92L

Incomplete returns to the editor's of• Delaware Township, Juniata County, fice indicate that the November elections Pennsylvania, attended the pub 1 i c included victories for many Dickinson• schools there and taught two years be• ians increasing among other things the fore entering Dickinson. After gradu• Dickinson bloc in Congress from one to ation, he began his law practice in two. Altoona, rapidly attaining high place at J. Banks Kurtz, College and Law '93, the bar and later serving two terms as of Altoona, Pa., who was· elected in district attorney of Blair County. During 1922 was reelected in the twenty-first the war he was county chairman of the district by a sweeping majority and will committee on public safety and the have as a colleague Joshua W. Swartz, council of national defense. He was '92L, who was elected in the 19th Penna. married September 4, 1894 to Jennie district. Mr. Swartz resides in Harris• Stockton of Washington County, Penn• burg, Pa. sylvania. His· two children are Dorothy, Congressman Kurtz is an active Dick• aged 23 and Jay Banks, aged 12. insonian, a member of the Alumni Congressman Kurtz last time was Council and the alumni association of elected by 20,000 majority, the largest the Law School. vote ever given a candidate in the dis• He is a member of the Phi Delta trict, and considerably above that given Theta fraternity. President Coolidge. Mr. Kurtz was born on a farm in Mr. Swartz also was given a decisive November, I924 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 21

majority on the Republican ticket. surrogate of Essex County, New Jersey, Though born on a Dauphin County farm of which Newark is the county s·eat. June 6, 1867, Mr. Swartz has resided In the primaries Mr. Gifford was op• since maturity in Harrisburg. He was posed by a Beta fraternity brother from admitted to the Dauphin County bar Cornell. Reluctantly describing his elec• immediately after his law school gradu• tion victory he likened it to the "trim• ation. He was elected to the Pennsyl• ming the Sophomore Band once gave the vania House of Representatives in 1914 Freshmen." and again in 1916. He retains his in• In Pennsylvania, two Dickinson men terest in Dickinson affairs and is always were elected to the House, John A F. a, patron of the annual dinners of the Hall, '12 of Harrisburg from Dauphin Dickinson Club of Harrisburg. County and Francis H. S. Ede, '14 L Apart from congressmen, the people from Northampton. elected Dickinson men to other offices. It is not improbable that later re• One of them was E. G. Gifford, '02, who turns to the editor's office will disclose on the Republican ticket was elected still more Dickinson political victories. Delaware State Officials Name Dickinsonians The Attorney-General elect of Dela• Hering, '17, '21L, will fill out the un• ware, Clarence A. Southerland, who de• expired term of Assistant City Solicitor feated a Dickinson man at the Novem• Morford when he becomes Chief ber election, has shown a preponderance Deputy. Hering has his law office in of favor towards the products of Dick• the Ford Building, Wilmington. inson. When he takes office on January Wilbur L. Adams, '04, was the Dem• ! , 19?5, his four Deputies will be Dick• ocratic candidate for Attorney General msoruans. of Delaware who opposed Mr. Souther• James R. Morford, '19L, who is the land at the November election. Mr. present Assistant City Solicitor of Adams had a remarkable run for the Wilmington, will be his Chief Deputy. office polling more votes by about one His Deputy for New Castle County thousand than did any other Democratic will be Leonard G. Hagner, '15; his candidate for State office. The heavy Deputy for Kent County will be Earl Coolidge vote carried everything in Dela• Willey, '13, and his Deputy for Sussex ware but a few minor county offices. County will be Robert J. Cooke, '08L. In a normal year, Mr. Adams would Another Dickinsonian, George C. have had an excellent chance of election.

Writes for Magazines N. Y. Alumnae Hold Luncheon The Fall Luncheon of the Dickinson Dr. Lynn H. Harris, '06, President College Alumnae Club of New York of Beaver College for Women, Beaver, City was held at the W. C. on Pa., has recently had published the fol• Y. A lowing: November 8. The Winter Luncheon will be held the second Saturday in "Duty: A Legend of Pompeii" February and the Spring Luncheon on (verse), Pittsburgh Christian Advo• the second Saturday in May. cate, August 21. Ethel D. Liebensberger, '09, secre• "Our Sex-Obsessed Literature" (lead• tary, 48 Washington Avenue, Ruther• ing article), Christian Century, October ford, N. ]., requests any alumnae who 30. would attend the functions of this club "The Influence of the Puritan on and are not now receiving notices to American Literature", Methodist Re• communicate with her. Mrs. D. C. uieui, November-December issue. VanSiclen, '14, is president of the club. 22 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS November, I92.t

COMMUNICATIONS ft is the policy of the magazine to publish signed letters subject to the usual publication rules. Alumni are innnte d to use this department of the magazine. A II correspondence should be sent to The Editor, The Dickinson Alumnus, Denny Hall, Carlisle, Pa.

The editors asked for expressions of opin• some good Carlisle ice cream and cake, as ions, constructive criticism, and suggestions we used to have. relating to Commencement. A few of the Very truly yours, replies are printed herewith. Some valuable L. APPOLD, '82. thought is presented and it is hoped that others will discuss this subject. One of the Dear Mr. Editor: planks of the magazine is to make Commence• I came away feeling that the commence• ment the finest attraction possible to every ment had been a great success and that the alumnus. The first letter is from L. T. alumni movement had come to stay. There Appold, '82, president of the General Alumni were a few things, however, that I think we Association; the second from Chas. K. Zug, can improve. '80, and the third from R. W. Crist, '23, First :-I hope the time will come when next to the youngest cl ass out of Co liege. all alumni in Carlisle will feel as they do at Yale and other colleges, not only a duty Dear Mr. Editor: but a privilege to take part in the parade. May I offer some suggestions in regard to Large as our parade was I believe there Alumni Day-our Day. The activities of were fifty alumni in Carlisle last June who that day are of the right kind, but they need did not take part. I hope you will urge this improvement. The annual meeting of the in the Alumnus. Further automobiles could General Alumni Association should begin easily be provided for those who are too old promptly at ten o'clock as scheduled. One or physically unable to walk the distance. hour is sufficient for it, and then from Second :-All alumni . should be urged to eleven to twelve music on the campus will secure in advance tickets for the game. The be very pleasant. We had good music by entrance of the alumni to the athletic: field the College band, but the band was placed last June was marred by the fact that many in rather a remote position on the campus, and of those parading were compelled to pur• seats were not provided anywhere. If only chase tickets at the gate. we still had the old pagoda, what a fine Third :-There should be no college ac• place that would have been for it! Could tivity interfering with Alumni Day. The there not be seats scattered about, where one glee club concert might be expected provided could sit and enjoy the music, or move about it is brief. This year their concert and the and chat for a moment with old friends? concert of the Glee Club of 1914 lasted until The luncheon on the campus was a good eleven o'clock; thus the singing on the steps idea, since there was no longer the necessity of Old West was deferred until an hour so of going down town to the hotels;. but late that I personally did not attend, much perhaps it might be more conven1en~ly as I enjoy it. served in' the big room under Memonal Whether it is wise to have the alumni Hall. I would like to see that luncheon plan game of ball in place of the Gettysburg game kept going, and more publicity given to it. is a matter, I think, of some doubt. Certainly Then came the parade and the ball game. if we won the game I think the alumni would Now the parade was fine in point of num• probably be as much, if not more, interested bers, but where were the costumes? When I in a game with one of our competitors than see in the newspapers what stunts the Yale in a friendly contest with members of the and Princeton Alumni pull off in their par• alumni. ades, I think we may take some lessons from I am not sure that it is wise to continue them and make our parade a corker too. The to have the parade through the town. I youngsters would better sit up nights think• think that was very wise this year. Eventu• .ing about this thing, for when they see the ally, it seems to me, it would be best to restrict "Old Grads" in the parade next year no one it to the route from the college to the athletic can sing; out "They're all right, but they field, in other words make it distinctlv a aint got no style." college affair. Now, Mr. Editor, just one thing more: Very truly yours, Let's have the college "Sing" in front of Old CHARLES K. Zuc, '80. West begin much earlier in the evening. It is one of the finest features of Alumni Day, Dear Editor: but it came so late this year that we were I think the 141st Commencement was fine. tired waiting for it; and then afterwards I have heard many favorable reactions to - No-uember, I924 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 23 the Alumni-Varsity baseball game, which I Writes History of Army believe should be an annual stunt. The 1914 Glee Club concert was excellent and the campus sing was better than ever. By all means try to get the class of 1915 to put on next year some one thing for which their class was noted. If they weren't noted for anything, let the talented members stage something or other. The undergraduates' part in commencement is valuable; their activites should not be reduced. However, the more alumni features that can be injected, the ,greater drawing power for grads. How about making a special effort next year, starting good and early, to get all the grads of fifty years and longer to return to the campus? Work up something for them to do or something in their honor. Many col• leges would give a good bit to have alumni as old as some of ours. Can't the Alumni Association be made to appear to have charge of next year's com• mencement? The commencement programs are getting better all the time, therefore the drawing power is there. All that remains is the proper machinery by which to present the attractions. To my mind, commencements now are to a point where attendance in big numbers is merely a matter of methods. Let all agencies bend their efforts toward commencement next year good and early. Let the undergraduate organizations prepare their plans for their participation as soon as possible. Let "The Dickinsonian" play com• mencement up for all its worth. Let "The Alumnus" be full of it. Let the newspapers MAJOR W. A. GANOE. '02, U. S. A. have all the publicity they can stand. Let it all start early. Whose "The History of the American Yours very truly, Army," the first ever written, has been ac• R. W. CRIST, '23. cepted throughout military circles as author• itative and bas won the approval of review• ers the country over. The work covers the American Army from 1775 to date and is Calls Radio a Leader written in lively narrative form that gives it the readableness of fiction, however au• "The average child who has a radio thentic it is. Major Ganoe, after his gradua• is gaining more knowledge of the world tion from Dickinson in 1902 was admitted he lives in than was possessed by the well• to West Point. Later he was adjutant for educated many of fifty years ago", ac• some years at the Military Academy. His cording to Dr. A. Duncan Yocum, '95, army career has been flavored strongly with literature, Major Ganoe having been a fre• of the University of Pennsylvania quent contributor to the Atlantic, Scribners faculty, who declares that the radio, the and the Yale Reuieaa. Major Ganoe is now motion picture and the automobile have stationed at Ft. Leavenworth. turned educational methods upside down. Doctor Yocurn's views on modern edu• cation are being syndicated in newspapers how to apply all of the mass of real ex• throughout the country in daily feature perience which is corning into their editorials written by Dr. Frank Crane lives. He recommends the "project and distributed bv the McClure News• method" to teachers, which puts into paper Syndicate. Yocum emphasizes that actual practice scientific theories ex• parents' tasks are to teach their children plained to them. 24 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS November, I92J Four Dickinsonians on Pennsylvania Supreme Court

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PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT Top row, left to right-Justices S. B. Sa

Four of the seven members of the College conferred upon him the degree present Supreme Court of Pennsylvania LL.D. at the Commencement in June, either graduated from Dickinson or re• 1924. ceived honorary degrees and are honor• ary alumni. Chief Justice Robert von Moschzisker became an honorary alumnus of the Col• Justice Sylvester B. Sadler, was a lege when he received the honorary de• member of the College Class of 1895 gree LL.D. at the Commencement of and graduated from the Law School in 1924. 1898. He was professor of Criminal Law in the Law School for a number Justice Alex. Simpson, Jr., is also an of years, before succeeding his father, honorary alumnus of the College having Judge Wilbur F. Sadler, as President received the degree of LL.D. and for a Judge of Cumberland County courts. number of years was a trustee of the Justice Sadler is vitally interested in the College. He resigned from such office Dickinson School of Law and has been in June, 1923. active in the doings of the Alumni As• sociation. Justice John W. Kephart graduated Show Rapid Growth from the Law School in the Class of A Birmingham, Ala., newspaper re• 1894 and at the recent annual Law Re• cently noted that the University of Ala• union joined with classmates in the cele• bama had 318 students in 1898 and that bration of their thirtieth reunion. He twenty-five years later had an enroll• is President of the Alumni Association ment exclusive of summer school stu• of the Dickinson School of Law. The dents of 2683. -- November, 1924 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 25

UNDERGRADUATE NOTES

Alumni would observe a "new it, but it was a losing proposition and wrinkle" early in the academic year the plan was dropped. when the staid U. P. and Belles Lettres Literary Societies stage rushing stunts A novice tennis tournament, now an to land Freshmen. A short meeting, annual fall event, revealed some promis• . , a social gathering and refreshments con• ing material for the tennis team . stitute these affairs, The scholarship loving cup of the In• The Women's Glee Club is in action terfraternity Council was awarded to with William Bretz, of Harrisburg, the Kappa Sigma Fraternity for this serving his fourth year as director. year, while the Phi Mu Sorority won the sorority cup for the third consecutive The College Band enjoyed the foot• year. ball season and played ably during Car• lisle's Old Home Week Celebration. By order of the Student Tribunal, Professor Schechter is the director and one freshman had his hair cut for him in the opinion of many is making a very this fall because he disobeyed the rule good job of it. not to accompany a girl on the streets of Old Bellaire.

The Dickinson Glee Club, under the The Dramatic Club, under the di• direction of Prof. Wass, has appeared at rection of Dr. W. H. Norcross, '07, is several functions and Manager Milligan planning a big year and expects to pre• is planning a trip during the Easter sent two major productions. vacation to Philadelphia, Delaware, and Maryland. The Freshman-Sophomore football game ended in a 6-6 tie and the real re• The A. A. purchased a grid-graph sult is that the Freshmen are now com• and several of the football games and pelled to carry matches until Spring for the World's Series were reproduced on all other classmen who demand them.

Ambassador Honors Dickinsonian thing. He's one of the best boys and Eugene C. Shoecraft, '14L, recently truest in the world." secretary to John W. Davis in his cam• In the days following the Armistice, paign for the Presidency and member' of Mr. Shoecraft was at the Peace Con• the Diplomatic Corps, is singulary hon• ference at Versailles and the Embassy ored in the book by Burton J. Hendrick there and later served at Vienna and on "The Life and Letters of Walter H. Budapest. Another mention of him is Page." made in the memories of Ambassador During the war, Mr. Shoecraft was Page and is as follows: first secretary at the American Embassy, The broke off diplomatic re• London, while the Hon. Mr. Page was lations with Germany on Feb. 3, 1917. The Ambassador to the Court of St. James. occasion was a memorable one in the Ameri• In a letter written by the Ambassador to can Embassy in London, not unrelieved by a touch of the ridiculous. All day long a Arthur W. Page from Sandwich, Eng• nervous and rather weary company had land on May 27, 1918, this postscript waited in the Ambassador's room for the appears: "Make Shoecraft tell you every- decisive word from Washington. Mr. and 26 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS November, 192¢

Mrs. Page, Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin, Mr. in the evening, the front door bell rang: Shoecraft, the Ambassador's secretary, Mr. Shoecraft excitedly left the room; half there hour after hour, hardly speaking to way downstairs he met Admiral William one another in their tense excitement, waiting Reginald Hall, the head of the British Naval for the news that would inform them that Intelligence, who was hurrying up to the Bernstorff's course had been run and that Ambassador. Admiral Hall, as he spied their country had taken its decision on the Mr. Shoecraft, stopped abruptly and uttered side of the Allies. Finally, at nine o'clock just two words: "Thank God!"

PERSONALS

1861 where he conducted courses in several uni• A. Hamilton Bayly is an insurance agent versities during the academic year and sum• in Cambridge, Maryland. mer sessions. 1876 1891 Two chums of college days are now living Dr. Frank Moore, superintendent of the at 934 Third Street, Santa Monica, California. New Jersey State Reformatory at Rahway, The one is Rev. James Blackledge, who held was recently elected President of the Ameri• the chair of Hebrew and Greek in the Uni• can Prison Association. versity of Southern California for 30 years. 1894 The other is a brother member of Phi Kappa Paul A. T'ulleys, now a very successful Psi, the Rev. Wright Eckersley, who taught banker of Bloomfield, Neb., recently visited in the Long Branch High School a number Rev. Louis Hieb, '95, at Hartington, Neb. of years before joining the New Jersey M. E. Dr. John D. Stoops, professor of Philosophy Conference. at Grinell College, Iowa, is recognized as 1881 "one of the really great men of that institu• Edwin A'. "Zeb" Linville journeyed from tion" to quote a recent· Jetter to the Editor New York on Election Day to see the foot• from Rev. Hijeb, '95. ball game with the Marines in Philadelphia. Rev. Dr. Wm. H. Ford spent August in Fred R. Johnson, '09, reports the follow• Canada visiting his daughter at Barrie, On• ing: "Persifor M. Cooke, 'Sr, is a teller in tario. He and Mrs. Ford visited the Can• the Denver National Bank, and is also Secre• adian National Exposition, an annual Toronto tary of the City Park Natural History Muse• event. um. This museum is one of the best in the 1895 United States and the natural settings of wild The members of this Class are invited to animal groups have received widespread write the Editor THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS, commendation." Denny Hall, Ca1:lisle, Pa., and to tell of their 1882 activities and especially that they are coming John M. Colaw is an attorney at law with to Commencement in June for their 30th offices at Monterey, Virginia. Reunion. In a letter to the Editor, the Ocean Grove Rev. Louis Hieb is pastor of the First Con• Times of November 7th, carried a fine tri• gregational Church, Hartington, Neb. Late bute to Col. George C. Stull, and his daughter in September, his daughter who was born in for their work: in behalf of the 'Ocean Grove Ceylon and just completed four years as sec• Association during the recent summer. Chap• retary to the president of Doane College, lain Stull served throughout the summer sailed for Foochow, China to be secretary without remuneration as executive secretary of the American Board Mission there. His of the Board of Trade at Ocean Grove. son, also born in Ceylon, graduated magna 1885 cum laude at Doane, had theology at Union Seminary and expects to graduate in theology Rev. Charles E. Eckels, Class Historian, is at Oberlin next spring and then to accept now. stationed at Nan, Siam, and writes that tentative appointments as a teacher in Jaffna he will likely call on Guy L. Stevick, of Den• College, Ceylon, next summer. ver, who was "his worthy assistant" at the Rev. Hieb reports that Rev. Charles Parker r oth Reunion to issue the call for the Class Connelly is doing a fine work as minister of to gather in the 4oth Reunion next June. a Community church in Rockford, Ill. Dr. Frank T. Baker, professor of English 1896 in Teachers College, , V\llilliam S. Lesh, is Supervising Principal returned to his duties in September after of the South River Public School, South River, spending his sabbatic vacation in California, New Jersey. 27 November, I924 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

ALONG THE BRIDAL PATH

the Rev. Dr. Harry B. Stock, '91, on October An echo of the '80-'84 reunion yell of the last Commencement was heard in Ocean 3 r st. Frank Croops, '24L, was best man. Grove, N. }., September 16th, when the Rev. Helen M. W/eisensale, '22, of Hanover, Pa., Dr. Franklin F. Bond, '83, was married to was married at her home on September zoth Laura Virginia Kennedy, of Olney, Pa., in to Roy B. Karn, of High Bridge, N. J., a St. Paul's M. E. Church, by Chaplain George C. Stull, '82, U. S. Army, while Edwin A. graduate of Lafayette. Linville, '81, and Miss Marguerite Stull, Another College romance led two gradu• daughter of Col. Stull, were the only at• tend ants. Dr. Wm. C. Robinson '82 ates of the Class of 1924 to the marriage altar when Mary Deiner, of Reading, Pa., Philadelphia City Chemist, who spe;t th~ and Fred V. Holmes, of Bloomsburg, Pa., summer at his cottage in Ocean Grove, has were married on October 19th. The bridal been lamenting ever since that he missed the couple are both students at the Drew Theo• ceremony. logical Seminary. .Geo rge C. Hering, jr., '17, '21L, of Wil• Edgar Sterrett Thompson, '19, of Carlisle, rnington, Del., and Helen Barnitz, of Barnitz, was married to Miss Maybelle E. Jamieson, Pa., were married on the lawn of the bride's of Frackville, Pa., on August 19th. Marlin home by the Rev. Dr. A. R. Steck, of Carlisle, Unger, 19, '21L, was one of the ushers at on October nth. The event was one of the ceremony. The couple will reside in the leading fall social functions of the Cum• berland Valley. Prof. Robert Myers, '17, . '21L, of the Law School faculty was an Edna Brumbaugh, '20, was married to T. usher. Malcolm Williams, a graduate of the Uni• versity of Pennsylvania, on June 25th. Ruth Ralph M. Bashore, '17, '21L, was married Brumbaugh, '22, the bride's sister, was to .Ethel May Felix of Carlisle in the bridesmaid. Spring Garden M. E.' Church, Phiiadelphia, ?Y the Rev. Linn Bowman, '98, on the morn• Mary Margaret May, '18, of Wilkes-Barre, ing of October nth. James C. McCready, and Harold H. Bixler, '18, of Carlisle, were '18, '21L, of Lansford, a member of the married on August 23d in the First Reformed ~arb?n County bar, was best man. They re• Church of' Wilkes-Barre of which the side m Tremont, Pa., while the bridegroom bride's father is pastor. The couple now commutes to his law office in Pottsville. reside in Atlanta, Ga., where since 1921 the bridegroom has been director of guidance k Dickinson romance culminated in a wed• and research work in the public school ding where only the organist was not a system. Dickinsonian, when Geraldine Zimmerman '20, and Carl Paul Obermiller, '20, '22L: Lucille Euretta Smucker, '20, married Dr. were married in St. Paul's Lutheran Albert Goho, of Harrisburg, a Bucknellian, Church; Carlisle, on September r st, by the on October 17th in Huntingdon, Pa. The Rev. Dr. Harry B. Stock, '91. The only at• couple now reside at 17 Cooper Avenue, tendants were J. Jackson Snyder, '21L, of Camp Hill, Pa. Easton, Pa., and his wife, '24. Before the cerem~ny, Raymond Hearn, '24, sang "Be• An all-Dickinson wedding was solem• cause. The couple reside in Germantown, nized in Philadelphia on September r oth Pa. when the Rev. Fred Corson, '17, married A. Douglas Meade, '17, and Mary Bagenstose, The Rev. F. Lamont Henninger '24 was '20. The couple reside at State CoJlege, married to Harriet Stoner, of Han'.isbu;·g, at where the bridegroom who recently com• the Grace M. E. Church, Harrisburg, on pleted his post-graduate work at Princeton, September r st, Annette Mercurio, '24, was will teach in the English Department. bridesmaid, while Eugene Triebels, '24, was best man, and Carl B. Stoner, '22, brother Cards were issued in November announc• of th.e bride, Linwood Crowding, '25, and ing the marriage of John Hays, jr., '24, son Morns E. Swartz, Jr., '23, were ushers. of George M. Hays, '9>, of Carlisle, to Mary Rubye Jones on April 19, 1924, at Elkton, Pe~er Stapchinskas, '24L, of Scranton, was married to Daisy E. Stickel, of Carlisle, by Maryland. 28 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS November, I924

1900 Baltimore Notes Fred D. Oiler, who is a practicing attorney Carlyle R. Earp, Correspondent, I29 E. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, recently moved his offices Redwood St., Baltimore, Md. from the Drexel Building to the National Hon. Hammond Urner, '90, of Fred• Bank of Commerce Building there. erick, Md., who was recently appointed 1901 Chief Judge of the Sixth Judicial District Announcing a church dedication from a of Maryland, took the oath of office ad• height of 3,000 feet in the air by throwing ministered by the Governor of Maryland out r j.ooo circulars from an aeroplane while at Annapolis on November 6th. flying over the city, was the novel plan Judge U rner has sat on the bench since adopted by the Rev. John C. Bieri a few 1909 and his present appointment will con• clays preceding the Sunday on which the new tinue until the election of 1926. Sunday school and social hall of the Frank• The friends of A. Norman Needy, '16, ford Avenue M. E. Church Philadelphia, of are glad to see him back in Baltimore w.hich he is pastor, was td be dedicated. again after an absence of more than a 1902 year in Ohio. "Red" has been situated Martin C. Flegal has been made post• with photographv concerns since gradua• master at Avis, Pa. tion and now fills a position as manager Rhey T. Snodgrass has become publisher with Bachrach, Incorporated, in Baltimore. of The Dispatch, St. Paul Minn. In the same city his classmate, Harry C. Wilbur Bishop Luther B. Wilson, '7 5, of the has his office as general manager of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who under• Minnesota Employers' Association. went an operation at Union Memorial J. Melville Arthur, in addition to being Hospital, Baltimore, has sufficiently re• assistant headmaster of Tome School, Port covered to return to his home in Roland Deposit, Md., has organized an X-Ray Lab• Park, Baltimore. oratory. Carlton Harrison, Law. '09, has been 1903 doing signal work at the Baltimore Y. M. The Editor picked up an address radiocast C. A·. since he was elevated to the general from WEBH, Chicago, by Rev. J. Roy secretaryship. His most recent success Strock during the conference of the United was his leadership in a financial cam• Lutheran Church on October 23d. His sub• paign, in which $98,000 was raised for ject was "Problems of World Service" and current expenses and to liquidate a war he gave a vivid portrayal of the Church's debt of the local "Y." Among the 300 duty in the East and especially in India, his Baltimore business men who supported own field of service. Mr. Harrison in this campaign were l904 Clarence M. Shepherd, '10, the new Pro• Born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Towers, motion Secretary at the Baltimore "Y," of 8547 104th Street, Richmond Hill, N. Y., Lewis M. Bacon, Jr., '02, Benson B. Boss, a son, Richard Lee, on August z r st. '08, and Carlyle R. Earp, '14. 1905 Colonel James G. Steese, '02, is in Rev. W. •Edw.ard Watkins, is serving his Washington at present on his annual mis• seventh year as pastor of the M. E. Church, sion to prepare bills for the next session Mount Carmel, Pa. of Congress in support of the railways, Born to Mr. and Mrs. Abram Bosler, Car• roads and public works of Alaska. lisle, Pa., a daughter, Mary Wood, on August 25th. Rev. J. Stewart Nagle, 'u,. has been 1907 transferred from Mt. Vernon Place Church, Baltimore, where he has been Edward C. Gisriel, of Port Deposit, Md., Director of Religious Education to First an Evangelist of the Baltimore Conference Methodist Episcopal Church of this city .pf the M. E. Church, has announced that he where he will do similar work. Mr. is open for engagements for "tent, woods, tab• Nagle is a missionary on furlough from ernacle, camip, union, and individual church Singapore, Strait Settlements. meetings." During the past summer, he held two tent meetings with Rev. J. J. Resh, '97, There are few Dickinsonians distant and worked in Delaware, Pennsylvania and from Carlisle who had a better record of Maryland. attendance at Dickinson games this Fail 1908 than Homer M. Respess, '17. He has Elbert M. Conover is Director of the Bu• motored Baltimore to see at least half the reau of Architecture of the M. E. Church, grid contests- and he has not forgotten to and is author of several articles and pam• take a couple of Dickinson friends along phlets on the subject of church architecture. with him each time he journeyed. l9l0 Harry J. Balls, is living at Collingswood, November, I924 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 29

N. }., and teaching mathematics in the Cam• den High School. Colorado Notes 1912 Fred R. Johnson, Correspondent, 2638 J. Freed Martin, a member of the pres• Euro da St., Denver, Colo. ent Senior Class at .Law School, passed the preliminary State Bar Examinations last July, Persifor M. Cooke, '8r, is a teller and opened an office for the practice of in the Denver National Bank, one of law in the Sentinel Building, Carlisle, Pa., the leading banks in this city. recently. He is also one of the Justices of H. W. Spangler, '82, is a prominent the Peace of the Borough. lawyer in Denver with offices in the 1913 Foster Building. Martha L. Johnson, of Mt. Carmel, Pa., George M. Steese, '13, is rapidly is now associated with the Stratbmore Pa• recuperating in the Fitzsimmons Hos• she is employed as librarian in the Browns• pital, one of the largest Government ville Children's Branch of the Brooklyn Pub• institutions operated by the Veterans lic Library. She completed her course in Bureau. He will be glad to see any library science at Pratt Institute last June. Dickinsonians who pass through Den• Howard W. Selby, who rounded and has ver. been general manager of the Eastern States Munson Corning, '10, is Superin• Farmers' Exchange for the past seven years, tendent of the Public Schools of Trini• is now located in New York City where dad, Colo., a thriving mining and in• per Company at Springfield, Mass. He is dustrial town located in the south• president of the Springfield Rotary Club and eastern part of the state. Mrs. Corn• recently attended the Toronto convention of ing, nee Florence Kisner, was also that body. a member of the Class of 1910. 1914 Addison Gooding, '15L, is practic• L. G. McCann, is engaged in the general ing law in Steamboat Springs, Colo. practice of law at Brighton, Colo. The opening of a new oil field and Rev, Raymond E. Marshall is now Super• the building of the Moffatt tunnel intendent of M. E. Missionary work in underneath the Continental Divide Panama and . His appointment are resulting in a big boom for this by Bishop Miller having been approved by mountain town. The tunnel will be the Board of Foreign Missions. six miles long when completed and Franklin A. Keller, a teacher in the will cut off 24 miles in distance and Friends School, Baltimore, has just had his 2500 feet in elevation from the pres• book "Helps to Study of Ancient History" ent route of the railroad. published by Heath & Co. F. D. Burgess, '09L, is making a 1915 big reputation for himself at Grand Lieutenant W. W. Edel, a Chaplain of the Junction, Colo., where l1e is District U. S,. Navy, is now stationed at Pago Pago, Attorney. American Samoa, where he is Superintendent of Education. He has recently had several articles published in the Washington Chris• the consul service in Germanv for some tian Advocate relating to Methodism's con• years, has just been transferr~d to South tributions to the personnel of the Navy America. H'e spent a short vacation at home chaplaincy. and came to Carlisle for a visit before going 1916 to Maracaibo, Venezuela. John H. Bickley, with bis wife, Florence Rev. Raymond D. Adams, for three years S~rock, 'r4, are now living in Carlisle, while pastor of the Calvary Presbyterian Church, ~1c~ley commutes to Harrisburg, where he Harrisburg, Pa., recently became pastor of is ID the Department of Public Service at the Presbyterian Church, Danville, Pa. the Capitol. Anna M. Mohler, for the past eighteen 1919L months has been a missionary in the service The wife of the Rev. Wm. E. ("Red") of the Episcopal Church, and is located at Swope, now pastor of the Trinity Lutheran Tokio, Japan, Church, Camp Hill, Pa., presented him with Rev. and Mrs. Raymond R. Brewer an• a son, William Elwood Swope, Jr., on Oc• nounce the birth of a son, Paul Kenneth, on tober 31st. May he be as great a football July 8th. player for Dickinson as his father! 1917 1920 Born to Mr. and Mrs. Luther F. Brame, George H. Burke, is Principal of the High of Carlisle, a daughter, Joan Sheaffer, on School at Bradley, Ill., and is also teaching July 29th. several courses there. 1918 1922 Albert H. Gerberich, who has been ID Eleanor Blackburn, became Girl's Work 30 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS November, I924

Pittsburgh Notes Trenton Notes R. R. NlcWhinney, Correspondent, I303 I. HOWELL KANE, Correspondent, Berger Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. 25 Lee Ave, Trenton, N. J. The Alumni of Pittsburgh were greatly J. Milnor Dorey, 'oo, of this city and pleased to hear of the victory over Gettys• formerly head of the English Depart• burg. Several of us are wearing new ment in the Trenton High School is on hats purchased by Gettysburgi ans. A. R. Reed, '17, is now located in Pitts• the program as a speaker at the Na• burgh with the Duquesne Light Company tion.al Council of Teachers of English, in the capacity of Sales Representative. which will meet at St. Louis from No• Several Pittsburgh Alumni journeyed to vember 27 to 29. Mr. Dorey will Meadville to see the opening football have as his subject "Business and the game with Allegheny College. English Teacher." William A. Jordan, '03, is one of the Dr. Milton Harold Nicholls '06 of leading members of the bar in Allegheny Philadeolphia spoke on "Eugen~ Fi~ld" County with offices in the Frick Building. at the r yoth Anniversary Program of Walter L. Dipple, '09, has returned to the Pennington (N. J.) Methodist his office after undergoing a serious opera• Episcopal Church. tion from which he wholly recovered. Russell Bullock, '12, formerly of this Albert T. Morgan, '98, is endeavoring city is Supervising Principal of Schools to organize a Dickinson Club in Pitts• at Fanwood, New Jersey. burgh, with the object of bringing to• Max Brunsterter, '22, is a member of gether the Alumni residing in Allegheny the £ac:ulty of the Millville, New Jer• County. sey, High School. Dr. Henry F. Whiting, who formerly .N. Earl Randolph, '24, is connected was on the Faculty at Dickinson, is a with the National Cash Register Com• frequent visitor to Pittsburgh. He is now pany. connected with the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, and resides at Beaver, Pa. 1924 B. Floyd Rinker, is a student in the grad• Secretary at the Carlisle Y. W. C. A. on uate School of Arts and Science Harvard September rst. University. ' Edith Blackburn, after an extended trip on ~· Louise Sumwalt is doing Church Secre• the Pacific Coast and through the West- re• tanal work at the Country Club Church of turned to begin her third successive year as Kansas City, Mo. of which her father is a teacher in the Friends School, Baltimore, pastor. Md. Harold A. Seeley is teaching Chemistry Colbert N. Kurokawa, is the secretary of and Physics in the High School at Doyles• the Students Bureau of Information of Nu• town, Pa. uanu Y. M. C. A. of Honolulu. Brinley R. Sayes, is cashier of the West Side Bank of West Pittston, Pa. Edwin Willoughby received his A:. M. de• The engagement of Charles W, Burn ot gree from Chicago Univers.ity las~ June, leading a class of 78. He is workmg for Vineland, N. J. to Miss Nora Eleanor Ander• his doctor's· degree there and is employed son of that place was recently announced. in the i'Jewberry Library in research work in Ma!·garet L. Cunkle is teaching latin in the high school at Columbia, Pa. books printed before 1500. Ruth Bortz is teaching mathematics in the 1923 Salem City High School, Salem, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Crist, Carlisle, Charles T. Wilson is teaching English and Pa. have announced the birth of a son, French in t!1e High School, Nazareth, Pa. Robert Grant, September 1.9th, at the Carlisle N. E. Tnebels and Ammon L. Miller are Hospital. stud~nts at the George Washington Uni• James K. Beighle, is teaching history and versity L~w Scho~l, Washington, D. C. is physical director in the High School at Carl Ritzman rs teaching in the Oxford DeLand, Florida. School for Boys, Hightstown, N. J. Zora Goodman leaves this month for Henrietta G. Bardo is teaching in the South Williamsport High School. Japan as a representative of the Methodist Eberly, Embery, Smith, Kline and Madore Church. returned to the Dickinson School of Law 1923L this fall. A. G. Keener, is teaching commercial R. Wayne Boyd is teaching in the high branches in the Edison High School, Harris• school at Wyomissing, Pa. burg, Pa. Edward Gaynor, 3d, is with the Scott November, I924 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 31

~aper Cc;>mpany, Chester, Pa., and was mar• Howard Bare, Henninger and Holmes are ried during the late summer. students at Drew Theological Seminary. Hugh Johnson is teaching in the high 1924L sch_ool. at s.tate College, Pa., while his brother, Homer L. Kreider, '21, of Harrisburg, Pa., Phil, is domg the same thing in Ramsey, N. J. having successfully passed the State Bar Ex• Sa~uel Templin is teaching Latin and aminations, was recently admitted to the coachmg at Wesley Collegiate Institute, Dauphin County Bar. Dover, Del. Paul Burkholder has received a fellowship 1925 L at Cornell and is studying biology there. While Paul Rupp was playing his last Horace Rogers is doing chemical research game in the Thanksgiving Day victory over work at Lafayette where he received a fel• Bucknell after three stellar years on the lowship. Red and White eleven, his wife, Ann Hoyer Esther Givler is teaching in the high Rupp was presenting him on November 27th school at Mercersburg, Pa. with a daughter, Patricia Ann.

Obituary

'66-George E. C. Johnson, son of Dr. H. M. Johnson, president of Dickinson College, 1860-68, died in the Wyoming Valley Homeopathic Hospital, Pittston, Pa., on August 2nd, at the age of 76 years. For the last fifteen years he had lived in Yakima, Washington, and was interested in apple raising. He was buried from t~e home of. his brother, Dr. Theodore M. Johnson, an honorary alumnus of the College, who is the sole survivor of the family of seven. Four children survive, a daughter, Mrs. A. H. Henry, of Yakima; and three sons, Edgar, of St. Louis; Marvin, of Chicago; and Ayres, of San Antonio, Texas.

'75-Rev. Benjamin F. Edwards died in Covina, California, on March 26th last after a four year's illness at the age of 7 5 years. He was one of the earliest set• tlers of the San Gabriel Valley, California, and as a horticulturist was active in the development of that section. He was interested in orange culture and owned an orange grove. For twenty years he was secretary of a large California irrigation ~ompany and for thirty-six years was treasurer of the Covina M. E. Church. He is survived by his widow and one daughter who was his nurse and companion during the years of his illness.

'78- John P. Melick, veteran banker, former trustee of Dickinson College and former prothonotary of Dauphin County, Pa., died suddenly in Harrisburg, Pa., during an attack of acute indigestion, on September 13th, when 67 years of age. He was secretary and a director of the State Capital Savings and Loan Association, which he was active in founding some years ago ; first vice-president and a director of the Union Trust Company, Harrisburg, and a trustee of the Grace M. E. Church, Harrisburg. He prepared for College at Williamsport Dickinson Seminary and after two years in College entered a business career. In 1891 he was elected Prothonotary of Dauphin County and in 1893 he was re-elected to that office with ' a large vote. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and of the U. P. Society. He is survived by one son and two sisters. Dr. George E. Reed assisted 111 the funeral services and President Morgan served as a: pall-bearer.

'83-William Alexander Eckels, of last Commencement's '80-'84 reunion group, died after a month's illness at his home in Washington, on October 30th. He was born in New Kingston, Pa., Nov. 4, 1863 and prepared for College at the West Nottingham Academy. He was a teacher in the Chambersburg, Pa., Academy, 1883-85; professor in Shepherd College, W. Va., 1885-88; principal of 32 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS November, I924

Snow Hill, Md., high school, 1888-89; professor' of Greek at Ripon College, Wis., 1891-95. In 1896 he entered , receiving his Ph. D. in 1898 and he then became professor of Greek in Miami University. For the past ten years he had been assistant principal of the Central High School, Washington. He was a member of Fraternity and of the B. L. Society. He is survived by his wife and two children, one sister and two brothers, Rev. Charles E. Eckels, '85, a missionary to Siam and ]. C. Eckels, of Carlisle.

'83-William lVI. Donovan, sixty-nine, a Philadelphia newspaper man for more than thirty years, died at his home there on October 13th. He came to, Dickinson College from and engaged in the real estate business for ten years in Philadelphia before entering newspaper work. He was attached to the staff of the old Philadelphia Times and later on the North American. He was a specialist in marine news and was widely known in the northeastern section of the city as a district man. In 1899, Dickinson College conferred upon him an Honorary A. M. degree and he also graduated from the Neff's School of Oratory, Philadelphia. He had fully planned to attend the '80-'84 Reunion last Commence• ment when he was stricken with a severe heart attack. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Florence Donovan and one brother, Edgar A. Donovan.

'00-Stricken ill with pneumonia while visiting her sister, Grace Lodelle Ross, of Shreve, Ohio, died in the Carlisle Hospital on November 17th. Withdrawing from College at the end of her first year, she entered the music department of Wooster University in 1899 and since then taught in Ohio Schools.

NECROLOGY Dr. Fred W. Hixon, President of Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., since 1920, died on November 23d, when 50 years of age. In 1918, Dickinson College conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL. D. in recognition of his service to the church. He was graduated from and was ordained in the Methodist Church in 1899. Following pastorates in cities, he served as president of the University of Chattanooga from 1914 to 1920. He was a regular contributor on educational topics to scholastic magazines and other publications. He was a member of the M. E. General Conference in 1920 and in this year's session at Springfield, Mass., served as secretary of the University Senate. He was a 32d degree Mason and a member of Fraternity.

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