Dickinson Alumnus, February 1957
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/ DICKINSON ALUMNUS, 11 Vol. 3' No. 3 I I . FEBRUARY, 1957 I •r~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!9..rt;;;i'• ~\:)~' '~ ~be Wtrktnson lUlumnus Published Quarterly for the Alumni of Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law Editor - - - - - - - - - - - - Gilbert Malcolm, '15, 't 7L Associate Editors - Dean M. Hoffman, '02, Roger H. Steck, '26 ALUMNI COUNCIL Class ot 1957 Class of 1958 Class of 1959 H:vman Goldstein, '15 Homer M. Respess, '17 Raymond E. Hearn. '24 c. Wendell Holmes. '21 Mrs. Helen D. Gallagher, Charles F. Irwin, Jr., '27 '26 Jack H. Caum, '34 Mrs. Jeanne W. Meade. •33 Mrs. Mary M. Eshelman, Dr. Edward Raffens- Paul A. Mangan, '34 c. John F. Spahr, '36 '43 perger. '36 C. Weston Overholt, '50 Dr. Weir L. King, '46 John D. Hopper, '48 Arthur L. Piccone, John P. Winand, William E. Woodside. Class of 1956 Class ot 1954 Class of 1955 GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF DICKINSON COLLEGE President C. Wendell Holmes Secretary Mrs. Helen D. Gallagher Vice-President Homer M. Respess Treasurer Hyman Goldstein ··¢11===========================11(>·· TABLE OF CONTENTS Trustees Adopt New Faculty Schedule 1 Where the Money Comes From and Where It Goes 3 Honors Come to Professor of Music ... 6 Professor J:imes Named to Watkins Chair 7 Former College President and Teacher Retires . 9 Becomes Treasurer of Centenary College . 10 Dickinson Trustee Becomes Trustee of Perkiomen . 11 Writes Notable Biography of Justice Stone ... 12 Named District Superintendent in N. Y. Conference 14 Appoint~d Exchange Preacher to Church in England .. 15 Twenty-Two Lifers Raise Total to 1,639 . 16 Now Representative to International Monetary Fund 18 Moving Up in General Motors Corporation . 19 Personals . 22 Obituary . 27 ··Qt··======================= II(>· Life Membership $40. May be paid in two installments of $20 each, six months apart or in $10 installments. Alumni dues $2.00 per year including $1.00 for one year's sub• scription to the magazine. All communications should be addressed to The Dickinson Alumnus, West College, Carlisle, Pa. "Entered as second class matter May 23, 1923. at the post office at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879." ~ ~~·- iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~~ THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS FEBRUARY, 1957 Trustees Adopt New Faculty Salary Schedule OR THE third time since he became which did not exist in 1945, was as F president of the College in 1946, follows: Dr. William W. Edel proposed a new 1948 and higher faculty salary scale to the Professor $4,500 to $7,000 Board of Trustees at its December meet• Associate Professor 3,500 to 5,000 ing, which approved his recommenda• Assistant Professor 3,000 to 4,000 tions, as it had done each time before. Instructor . 2,000 to 3,500 When the motion passed, one of the Seven years later, in 1955, President Board members, Dr. Carl G. Chambers, Edel recommended a revision of the who is Vice President in Charge of Engi• existing scale in what he termed "a neering Affairs at the University of modest advance." In his report to the Pennsylvania, arose and said he believed Board he wrote: the new Dickinson schedule which will become effective at the opening of the "This is a respectable scale, and while fiscal year in July 1957 is the same as it is by no means yet adequate, and is that at the University of Pennsylvania, only an interim scale which must be ad• except that there is no ceiling there on vanced still farther when financial re• the maximum amount which may be paid sources permit, it represents a very real to a full professor. advance over nine years ago (over The salaries in effect in 1945 and 1946) ." when Dr. Edel became president were: "It will be evident that in faculty sal• aries we have more than kept abreast of 1945 the rise in the cost of living, and are Professor $3,000 to $4,400 now beginning to win back some of the Associate Professor 2,800 to 3,000 ground lost prior to 1946 through de• Assistant Professor (None) pression, war and inflation. As President Instructor . 2,000 to 2,800 of Dickinson, I am proud to be able to This salary schedule had never been bring the College to the place where it published. In one of his first reports to can be among the leaders in restoring to the Board of Trustees, Dr. Edel recom• the profession of teaching its proper mended the adoption of a salary sched• standing in the competitive economy, and ule, to be published. At its meeting in to the individual teacher the sense of Philadelphia in December 1947 the Board dignity and self-respect that rightly be• adopted a schedule to become effective longs to him. The college professor, at June 1948. It is believed that this early the peak of his profession, stands on a action to increase faculty salaries was a level with the lawyer or the physician at great consideration in gaining the Ac• the peak of his, and deserves compara• complishment Award made by the Ford ble remuneration. In this new pay scale Foundation, which was announced last of 1955 we have made a good start, but year. That schedule, which also includes our goals must be set still farther ahead." the grade of Assistant Professor, a rank The Board approved his recommenda- 2 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS tion and adopted the following salary ance and travel to meetings of profes• scale: sional and learned societies. Blue Cross 1955 and Blue Shield are available to all on a Professor $5,500 to $8,000 group basis. Associate Professor 5,000 to 6,000 Assistant Professor 4,000 to 5,000 At Washington Luncheon Instructor . 3,000 to 4,500 There was a strong Dickinson flavor When he made his report to the Board to' the Citation Luncheon of the All in December, President Edel repeated Pennsylvania College Alumni Associa• what he had told the Trustees in 195 5 tion of Washington, D. C., held in the and then read the following paragraph: Hotel Shoreham on January 26, when "The standing and prestige of a col• about 40 alumni were present. lege depend on many things, tan$ible G. Harold Keatley, '27, president of and intangible, but in the educational the Association, presided. He made the world the standing of a college depends association's citation award to Dr. H. more largely upon the quality of its fac• W. Prentis, Jr., and introduced Dr. ulty than upon any other single factor. William W. Edel, the President of the And the quality of the faculty depends College, who was the principal speaker. upon the ability of the college to buy Also at the speaker's table was Dr. M. brains in the competitive market. I .be• Vasti Burr Whittington. lieve the time has now come for Dick• Among those introduced were Judge inson to compete in this field with the Clarence Sheely, president of the law best colleges in the country." school· the Honorable John P. Saylor, In proposing a new salary seal~ effec• Congr~ssman from Pennsylvania; Dr. tive July 1957 , President Edel said_ that Charles S. · Swope, president of West potential resources would make available Chester State Teachers College and Dr. funds "all of which should be applied to D. Fred Wertz, president of Lycoming salaries of faculty, administration, secre• College. tarial and maintenance personnel." Other Dickinsonians present mcluded Upon his recommendation, the Board Dr. Dayton E. !'1cCl~in, Vice President adopted the new schedule which is as of American University; Paul A. Man• follows: gan, Maude E. Wilson and William J. 1957 Batrus officers of the Dickinson Club of Professor $7 ,000 to $10,000 Washi~gton; L. H. Lynn Edwards, and Associate Professor 6,000 to 7,500 his brother, Fred, both of the FBI; Mrs. Assistant Professor 5,000 to 6,500 Paul E. Smith and her sister, Ruth Black• Instructor 4,000 to 5,000 well; Mrs. Julia Prince Laise; Mr. and The reader needs also to know that all Mrs. James Kent; Doris Spangenberg; of these schedules are for "base'" sal• William R. Schmucker; George Shuman, aries. "Fringe benefits" amount to an ad• Jr., and Gilbert Malcolm. ditional 10% per year of the annual salary, and these benefits have doubled within the past decade. Under the Teach• Serves As Delegate ers Insurance and Annuity Retirement William H. Rogers, '05, attorney of Plan, known to many as the Carnegie Jacksonville, Fla., served as the_ delegate Fund the College contributes one-half of Dickinson College at the maugura• the a~ount of the annual premium, pro• tion of Franklyn Arthur John_son . as viding the premium is not more than president of Jacksonville University, 10% of the annual salary. formerly Jacksonville Juni?r College, on Other "fringe benefits" include social February 15. Mr. Rogers is a trustee of security, group life and disability insur- Jacksonville University. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 3 Where the Money Comes From and Where It Goes By ALBERT WALKER, Assistant to The President N EXPANDING student enroll• full time College personnel accounted A ment, increased costs and higher for 66 per cent of last year's budget. salaries have pushed the total expendi• Approximately three-fourths of this tures for operating Dickinson College amount, or 50 per cent of the College past the million-dollar mark for the budget was allocated to instructional second time in College history. salaries. One-fourth, or 16 per cent of The audited account of the financial the budget, went to pay the salaries of operations of the College for the twelve ill administrative officers and secretarial months ending June 30, 1956, shows ex• ind service personnel.