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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1925 DICKINSON ALUMNUS ~~-=========- ~~ 11 Vol 2. No. 3 I [ F<b•=•y 1925 11 Carlisle Trust Company CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA Member Federal Reserve System Capital, Surplus and Profits over $400, 000. 00 Assets and Trust Fund over $3,500,000.00 Interest Paid on Time Deposits Acts in All Trust Capacities ~IERKEL LANDIS, '96 President Capital $1,ll00,000.00 :: Svrplns 82,250,000.00 COLONIAL TRUST The Commonwealth COMPANY Title Insurance and BALTIMORE Trust Company Established 1898 Chestnut and 12th Streets Acts as• PHILADELPHIA Executor Administrator Insures Titles to Real Estate Rents Safe Deposit Boxes $4 to $100 Guardian Pays Interest on Daily Balances and Takes Entire Charge of Real Estate Acts as Executor. Administrator, Guardian Trustee and Trustee Wills Receipted for and Kept Without Charge '· J. HENRY FERGUSON, Pres idrsu Savings Fund Department LEMUH T. APPOLD '82 Christmas Fund Fice-Prcsident w.1. G•AHM1 Bowoo1N, J•. licr-Prrvt. and Tr u 1 Ojiiur JOSHUA R. MORGAN CHARL>:s K. Zuc, '80 President I'ice-Prrsid nit Interest alioued on Deposits, subject to check JAMES V. ELLISON, Treasurer Come back to COMMENCEMENT and Buy Your Clothes and Furnishings at less than City Prices KRONENBERGS CARLISLE, PA. "7::he College Store for ouer 50 years" PROFESSIONAL CARDS R.R. McWHINNEY I GEORGE V. HOOVER Attorney-at-Law Attorney-at-Law 1303 Berger Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. 201-202 Calder Bldg., Harrisburg, Pa. 1 LESTER S. HECHT, '15 C. W. SHARP, '14 LAW, Attorney at Law Attorney-at-Law Associated with 216 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Marbury, Gosnell & Williams Maryland Trust Bldg., Baltimore, Md. H. L. DRESS FRYSINGER EV ANS Attorney-at-Law Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law Steelton Trnst Co. Bldg., Steelton, Pa. 822 Land Title Building, Philadelphia, Pa. THOMAS D. CALDWELL HARRY L. PRICE, '96 Attorney-at-Law Attorney-at-Law 902 Kunkel Building, Harrisburg, Pa. 225-232 New Amsterdam Bldg., Baltimore, Md. JAMES G. HATZ ISAAC T. PARKS, JR., '97 Attorney-at-Law Attorney-at-Law 201-202 Calder Bldg., Harrisburg, Pa. 225-232 New Amsterdam Bldg., Baltimore, Md. IRA C. RAMSBURG '10 Attorney and Cminsellor-ai-Ltiui 3727 Equitable Building, 120 Broadway GlJTH New Yori;;: City Official Photographer JOHN R. YATES, '16 Attorney-at-Law Carlisle, Pa. 818 Munsey Building, Washington, D. C. SpeciaUzing in Feiierc; Taxes Published Quarterly for the Alumni of Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law Editor - - - - - Gilbert Malcolm, '15, '17L Associate Editor - Dean M. Hoffman, '02 ADVISORY BOARD Terms expire in 1925 Terms expire in 1926 7'erms expire in 1927 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 ••.•....... '95 E. Foster Heller •....... '04 Robert B. Kistler .••..•... '15 J. W. Long ......•..•••. '07 Philip S. Moyer '06 GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF OF DICKINSON COLLEGE DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW President ...•..•.•. Lemuel T. Appold 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 A Present for Members of the Alumni Associat-o-i . 3 Steaming Up for 1925 Commencement . 4 ,., Reminiscences of Dickinson . I 1925 Football Schedule Criticized and Defended . 9 Carlisle Again Fetes Winning Team . 11 Basketball Five Splitting Even . 11 College Records Show Progress in Ten Years . 12 Dickinsonian New York Financial Leader . 14 Editorial · . 16 Sigma Chi Fraternity Buys New Home . 19 Alumni Association Membership Increasing . 20 Meet the Boys of '76-'86 Now and in June . 21 Personals . 25 Along the Bridal Path . 28 Obituary ·. · · · . 30 Alumni dues $2.00 per year, including one year's subscription to the magazine. All communications should be addressed to The Dickinson Alumnus, Denny Hall, Carlisle, Pa. "Entered as second-class matter May 23, 1923, at the post office at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879." THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS February, 1925 A Present for Members of the Alumni Association ACH member of the General The last directory of living alumni E Alumni Association of Dickinson was published in 1909 and is now prac• College in good standing, that is each tically obsolete. Every alumnus should alumnus who has paid his or her annual have a copy of this new directory, and dues of Two Dollars, will receive free the issuance of the directory by the As• a copy of the Alumni Directory, which sociation should prove a great stimulus will soon be published. This will be to membership. Dues in the Alumni a directory of names and addresses of Association are Two Dollars a year and all the living alumni, not an Alumni should be sent, making any remittance Record, such as was published in 1905, payable to the Dickinson Alumnus, giving the life history of each alumnus. Denny Hall, Carlisle, Pa. The Alumni Association, in co-opera• tion with the College, will soon publish this directorv. Work has been progress• Names Nominating Committee ing on it for. some time, and the material President L. T. Appold has announced can soon be placed in the hands of the the appointment of Merkel Landis, '96, printer. It will probably contain three president of the Carlisle Trust Com• listings of all the living alumni of the pany, Carlisle as chairman of the Nomi• College. One list will be made up by nating Committee to select candidates -: classes, a second will be geographical, for the five posts on the Alumni Council while a third will be an alphabetical of the General Alumni Association of list giving the name of each alumnus Dickinson College, which become va• and his class numeral. cant in June. Carlyle R. Earp, '14, sec• The Dickinson Alumnus on its part retary of the Dickinson Club of Balti• will send one of these directories to each more, has been named a member of this paid up member of the Alumni Associa• committee, and the third member is yet tion. But the directories will be sent to be appointed. only to those who have paid their dues The Nominating Committee will in the Alumni Association for 1924-25. name ten candidates and these names This number of the magazine is being will appear in the ballot which will be sent to some alumni who have not yet sent to all members of the General Alum• paid their dues, and receiving the maga• ni Association in May. Each member zine does not mean that a directory will will vote for five, and the five receiving come along too. If a membership blank the highest number of votes will become was in this copy of the magazine when members of the Council. Nominations taken from the mailing envelope, it will be made only from the membership shows that according to the office records of the association. the person addressed has not paid the It will be remembered that at the last 1924-25 dues. meeting of the Alumni Council a change Those who are not members of the was made in the By-Laws of the As• Association will only be able to get a sociation providing that all ballots must copy of this valuable directory by mak• reach the Tellers of the Election at least ing application to the College office, and fifteen days before the annual meeting. by making a payment of One Dollar. The annual meeting will likely be held This is another example of the benefits on the morning of Alumni Day, June 6, of regularly paying membership dues in so that all ballots should be mailed to the Alumni Association. the Tellers on May 15th. 4 THE DICKI SON ALUMNUS February, 1925 Steaming Up For 1925 Commencement Ol\L\IENCEMENTplans from the alum• Apart from this general alumni move• C ni standpoint are incubating hope• ments, groups and classes are getting fully. Apart from the programs under their work under way. Perhaps the most way by the classes scheduled for re• striking effort is being made by the classes unions, President Appold of the Gen• from '76 to '86 both inclusive. In this eral Alumni Association has appointed group will be that noisy, frolicsome, loyal a special committee on Alumni Day ac• quad of classes from '80 to '84 which tivities with special emphasis on the cos• were such "live-wires" at the 1924 Com• tumed Pee-rade. Commencement is mencement. None of these classes in• dated for June 5-9 with Alumni Day, dividually felt quite strong enough nu• Saturday, June 6. merically to stage a reunion so they hit An effort is to be made this year under upon the group idea and this year are the direction of the committee working extending the span of classes in both di• in cooperation with the returning classes rections. Leaders in the movement have to make the costumed procession an es• taken solemn oath their members will be tablished feature of all Dickinson Com• in costume. Arrangements for the mencements. On the committee are round-up are in charge of the Rev. Dr. Dean Hoffman, '02, Harrisburg, chair• F. F. Bond, '83, 3059 North 18th Street, man; Philip S. Moyer, '06, Harrisburg, Philadelphia. Dr. Bond directed the '80- deputy Attorney '84 reunion last General of Penn• ATTEXTION, REUNION CLASSES year. The Class of sylvania and Frank A ridiculously easy and Jnexpon• '7 5 will celebrate E. Masland, '18, stve way has been found to obtain its 50th reunion Carlisle manufac- costumes for the Pee-Rade, June and will invite all / turer.
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