DICKINSON ALUMNUS

l t VoL 21, Nd I I May, 1944 I ~be IDtckinson allumnus Published Quarterly for the Alumni of Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law Editor ------~ - ~ ~ Gilbert Malcolm, '15, '17L Associate Editors - Dean M. Hoffman, '02, Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.,'35 ALUMNI COUNCIL Terms Expire in 1944 Terms Expire in 1915 Terms Expire in 1946 Harry B. Stock. '91 George W. Pedlow, '01 Daniel P. Ray, '03 George C. Hering, Jr., '17 Carlyle R. Earp, '14 Karl E. Richards, '10 Mrs. Margaret M. McEl11.m,M aude E. Wilson, '14 Dr. Fred L. Mohler, '14 '14 Robert L. Ganoe, '16 Mary K. Wetzel, '22 Robert W. Crist, '23 C. Wendell Holmes, '21 J. Wesley Lord, '27 J. Watson Pedlow, '29 Harold Brenner, John J. Ketterer, Ma.rkin R~ Knight, Class of 1942 Class of 1943 Class of 1941 GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF OF DICKINSON COLLEGE DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW President ..•...... Karl E. Richards President .... Justice John W. Kephart Vice-President Robert w. Crist First Vice-Pres Robert Haya Smith Secretary C. Wendell Holmes Sec'y.-Treaa Joseph P. McKeehan Treasurer Harry B. Stock

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page 171st Commencement Program Nearer Pre-War lines 1 Honorary Degrees to Seven at Commencement 3 Alumni Fund Passes Half-Way Mark . 5 Four Hundred Fourteen Alumni Are lifers 8 Killed When Plane Crashed on Aleutian Mountain 12 Presidential Citation Honors Pilot Posthumously 13 A Review of Ten Years by Boyd Lee Spahr, LLD. 14 Editorial . 20 College Trustee Dies After Lingering IJlness 22 Young Alumnus Receives Distinguished Flying Cross 23 Letter Reveals Courtship of Justice James Wilson 24 Letters from Overseas . . . . 25 1,058 Stars in Dickinson's Service Flag . 27 Personals . 28 Obituary . 35

'II(>· Lije 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 of/ice at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879.• ~~======~~ THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS MAY, 1944 171st Commencement Program Nearer Pre-War Lines IGH-LIGHTING the two day pro• class this year to complete this project H gram for the l 7lst Commencement which was begun some years ago. The on May 27 and 28, which more nearly scholarship fund will be more than follows pre-war lines than the 1943 ver• $1,000.00. sion, will be an address by President Following the Alumni Luncheon tradi• Fred Pierce Corson marking the tenth tional undergraduate ceremonies will be anniversary of his administration. This carried out on the campus. With George will be made at the Commencement Ex• S. Hewitt, president of the senior class, ercises on Sunday afternoon, May 28, in charge there will be the "Passing of at 3 o'clock in Bosler Hall, when honor• the Old Stone Steps" when the seniors ary degrees and those in cursu will be turn over the duty of maintaining the awarded. traditions of the college to the juniors, The Baccalaureate Services will be This will be followed by the presen• held that morning in Allison Methodist tation of The 1902 Award by Daniel R. Church at 10:30 o'clock, when the Rev. Peffer, '02, of Lancaster, Pa., to George William H. Ford, D.D., '94, member S. Harrison, of Dillsburg, Pa., who was of the 50th Reunion Class and chaplain chosen by his classmates as the recipient of the Methodist Hospital, Philadelphia, of the honor. The Ivy Oration will then will deliver the sermon. be delivered at Bosler Hall where the Unlike 1943 when the program began seniors will plant their class ivy. on Saturday afternoon, Alumni Day will Judge Karl E. Richards, president of open on May 27 at 10: 30 A. M. · in a the General Alumni Association, will meeting of Phi Beta Kappa. Then at deliver the charge to the seniors at the 11 o'clock there will be a meeting of Senior Induction which will then be held the Alumni Council in West College to at the flagpole with Dean E. A. Vuil• be followed by the annual meeting of leurnier reading the class roll. the General Alumni Association. President and Mrs. Corson will re• The withdrawal of the Army aviation ceive students and alumni, parents and cadets makes possible the restoration of friends from 4: 00 to 5: 30 o'clock at the Alumni Luncheon to the Commence• The President's Reception which will be ment program. The event will be held held in the President's House. in the Old Gymnasium, which was con• Saturday's events will conclude with verted into the Army mess hall a year the annual meeting of the Board of ago. Accommodations are limited and Trustees which will be held at 7: 30 admission will be by ticket costing 50c, o'clock in the Physics Lecture Room in and these will be sold first to alumni. the Tome Building. Reservations must be made in advance Hotel accommodations are greatly lim• by writing to Gilbert Malcolm, Alumni ited in Carlisle. Alumni planning to Secretary, Dickinson College, Carlisle, spend any of the commencement nights Pa. in Carlisle are strongly advised to secure A feature of the Alumni Luncheon their accommodations well in advance. will be the presentation of the Class of A limited number of beds will be avail• 1909 Scholarship, a gift to the college able for men in the dormitories and for by the members of that class meeting in women at Metzger. Men should write their 35th Reunion. Ellsworth H. Mish, to George Shuman, Jr. and women to Linette E. Lee and Charles E. White• Dean Josephine B. Meredith for these head have served as a committee of the accommodations. 2 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

C. GRANT CLEAVER WILLIAM H. DuBARRY

0. A. BARTLEY DR. HENRY F. GRAHAM THE DICIGNSON ALUMI\' LJS 3 Honorary Degrees to Seven at Commencement

EDWARD G. LATCH J. ROLLAND CROMPTON

OUR Dickinsonians are among the He was in charge of the high school F seven who will receive honorary de• and college department for Greater New grees at the 171st Commencement Exer• York for this company for many years cises in Bosler Hall on Sunday after• until 1938 when ill health caused his noon, May 28 at 3 o'clock. The Dick• retirement. More than a year ago, he insonians are C. Grant Cleaver, '94; the joined the Dickinson war college fac• Rev. J. Rolland Crompton, '20; the Rev. ulty and taught physics for thirteen Edward G. Latch, '21, and Charles Wen• months to the aviation cadets. His wife dell Holmes, '22. is the former Ethelyn M. Hardesty, '02. The degree of Doctor of Laws will The Rev. J. Rolland Crompton, '20, be conferred upon William H. DuBarry, of Kingston, Pa., will receive the de• Vice-President of the University of gree of Doctor of Divinity. He is Pennsylvania. Dr. Henry F. Graham, superintendent of the Wilkes-Barre Dis• noted surgeon of the Methodist Hos• trict of the Wyoming Conference of the pital, Brooklyn, N. Y., will receive the Methodist Church. degree of Doctor of Science. An hon• The Rev. Edward G. Latch, '21, who orary degree of Doctor of Divinity will will receive the degree of Doctor of be conferred upon President 0. A. Divinity, is pastor of Metropolitan Me• Bartley, of Wesley Junior College, morial Church, Washington, D. C., Dover, Del. which is known as "The National The degree of Doctor of Literature Methodist Church," and is the church will be awarded to C. Grant Cleaver, attended by the students of American '94, '95L, on the occasion of his SOth University. Reunion. Following his graduation from C. Wendell Holmes, '22, wilJ be the college, he taught school and was awarded the degree of Master of Arts. high school principal at Lock Haven, Pa. He is Registrar of the Upper Darby and Sharon, Pa. until he became asso• Senior High School, Upper Darby, Pa., ciated with the educational department and for a number of years has been the of Ginn & Co., text book publishers. efficient secretary of the General Alumni 4 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

ceived his M.D. degree. From 1907 to 1928, he was assistant surgeon of the Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y. and has been senior surgeon since 1928. He was associate and attending surgeon at the Norwegian Hospital in Brooklyn from 1914 to 1928, and is consulting surgeon at Victory Memorial and Hunt• ington hospitals. He is a member of the founders group of the American Board of Surgery, and a Fellow of the Ameri• can College Surgeons; a member of American Surgical Association, New York Surgeon's Society, Kings County Medical Society and the Brooklyn Sur• gical Society of which he was president in 1924. The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity will be conferred upon Presi• C. WENDELL HOLMES dent 0. A. Bartley, of Wesley Junior Association of Dickinson College. College, Dover, Del., which opened about a year ago. He is a graduate and William H. DuBarry, who will re• holds a master's degree from the Uni• ceive an LLD. degree, is a descendant versity of Delaware, where he also of the Denny family for whom Denny taught economics. He is a minister, a Hall is named. He was born in Lewis• member of the Peninsula Conference of town, "Pa. and is a graduate of the Uni• the Methodist Church since 1924. versity of Pennsylvania. He served as a second lieutenant with the A.E.F. in World War I, and became Assistant to Shot Down Over Adriatic the Provost and President at the Uni• versity of Pennsylvania in 1923, and in _Lt. Ralph W. Schecter, Jr., '44, Army 1931 was named Director of Scholar• Air Forces, was shot down in a flight ships and Student Finance. In 1939 he over the Adriatic Sea on March 18 and became Vice-President and Assistant to is now a patient in a British hospital in the President there, and he has recently southern Italy, according to word re• been named Executive Vice-President to ceived by his parents, Prof. and Mrs. take office on July 1, 1944. He is presi• Ralph W. Schecter. dent of the Wistar Institute, a trustee Three members of the crew of which of the Thomas W. Evans Institute and Lt. Schecter was the pilot lost their lives the Moore School of Electrical Engineer• in the crash when the motors of the ing. He is a member of the Board of plane were shot away. Lt. Schecter suf• Managers of the University Museum ferd a wound to his leg, though his and also of Graduate Hospital. He is parents have not learned whether it is active in the affairs of the Protestant a serious wound or not. Episcopal Dioceses of Pennsylvania and Prior to the crash, Lt. Schecter, who is a member of the vestry of Holy Trin• went overseas shortly after last Christ• ity Church, Philadelphia. mas, had been on at least 3 5 combat Dr. Henry Flack Graham, who will missions. He entered the service June· receive the Sc.D. degree, was born in 1943 and received his commission and . Troy, N. Y. He graduated from the pilot's wings on August 30. He then re• College of Physicians and Surgeons, ceived operational and combat training New York City, in 1905 when he re- before going overseas. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 5 Alumni Fund Passes Half-Way Mark HE ninth annual Alumni Fund Cam• Though it has been explained many T paign passed the half-way mark times before, it must be stated again that toward the goal of $30,000 when on May payment of dues to the General Alumni 6 subscriptions totalled $15,657.13. Of Association or payments on subscriptions this amount, $14,933.13 had been paid for life membership in the General in cash and subscriptions totalling Alumni Association, are not contribu• $724.00 to be paid before June 15, 1944 tions to the Alumni Fund. These pay• had been received. ments go into the treasury of the Gen• The last subscription on that day came eral Alumni Association. Annual dues from Arthur L. Tait, '46, who had been and income from the Lemuel T. Appold called from his studies at the college a Life. Membership Fund are used by di• short time ago to enter the service. He rection of the Alumni Council for the is now a Pharmacist's Mate 3/c in the work of the alumni association and are Navy. He sent $5 and wrote: "I want now being used almost entirely for the to do something for the College, which publication of THE DICKINSON ALUM• did so much for me." NUS. The Alumni Fund, on the other The spirit of Arthur Tait has been hand, seeks gifts which go into the· funds manifested by many Dickinsonians serv• of the college. The money is used for ing all over the world. The gifts of the the operation of the college, scholarship• men and women in the armed forces shed loan grants to students and not less than rare brilliance in the response of alumni $750 annually, or as much more as is to the appeal of the Trustees to raise designated, is added to the permanent $30,000 this year. endowment of the Library Guild, the in• With the end of the Army training come from which is used for the pur• program at the college this month, and chase of books for the library. the graduation of about 30 seniors, Because many Class Agents are in the the enrollment will fall to the all-time armed forces, they cannot carry on the low of many years. There will be few solicitation of members of their classes students in the approaching summer ses• for gifts to the Alumni Fund. Alumni sion, when non-resident women are not are urged, therefore, not to wait for in attendance, and it appears doubtful letters from Class Agents or other class that there will be more than 200 present officers but to send their gifts directly to when the fall session opens. Farseeing the college using the subscription cards these possibilities led the Trustees in a and return envelopes which have been special meeting on February 12 to ask mailed twice to all alumni in recent the alumni and friends of the college to months. This will save the alumni of• contribute $30,000 to meet current needs. fice a great deal of work in any follow-, In the first eight years, the Alumni up efforts and it will also save the col• Fund totalled about $10,000 and last year lege the costs of such solicitation. when $20,000 was asked a total of $17,- While the subscription card now be• 311.02 was contributed. In response to ing used asks for payment "on or before the appeal to raise $30,000, many alumni June 15, 1944" any alumnus wishing to are doubling or tripling their gifts of use installment payments may so indi• other years and there are many new sub• cate when making his pledge. scribers this year. However, though the A report of this year's campaign list• fund has passed the half-way mark, it ing the names of all contributors by is clear that many more additional sub• classes, without giving the amount of scriptions must be received, and many individual gifts, will be published in of them must be large gifts, if the the July issue of the Dickinson College $30,000 goal is to be reached. Bulletin. 6 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE

DAM is reported to have said to Eve of all life to survive depends upon its A as they left Paradise, "My dear, we ability to adjust itself to changing con• live in times of transition." Surely that ditions, and I am glad to report that up is the experience of an American college to the present moment, Dick!nsoi:i C?l• in war-time. One year ago we were re• lege shows no evidence of losing its life organizing our colleges for the training by an inability to "serve the present of soldiers. With remarkable speed and age." efficiency this unusual feat was accom• Next year we will have a small col• plished and 2,260 air cadets have passed lege, but academically it will be the best through the college training program at in the 1 71 years of the existence of the Dickinson since then. College. We are planning for that, and During that time we operate~ a full the entire faculty expects it. liberal arts college, demonstrating that Financing must be along new lines, a good liberal arts college can do two but they are opening up before us, and things at the same time. A few months no alumnus really expects the College to ago we were predominantly a_ men's emerge from these experiences with a college with the men outnumbering the weakened financial structure. women three to one. Rather rapidly, When the men begin to return from however, we have been transformed into the battlefronts, another transition period a "women's college" with the women will begin in American college life. No outnumbering the men by three to one. one knows when it will start. It may be Student activities, dominated by the within the next academic year. But men, are now being taken over by the whenever it comes, the colleges will be women, with many evidences of marked called upon to meet conditions as they improvement. A short time ago the develop quickly. Here again it is cer• college curriculum was a fixed order tain to be an individual rather than a built upon the certainty of four years mass problem which must be faced. of college work with two semesters com• So for us on the campus, the present pleted in each calendar year. Now vir• and the future will contain few if any tually every student, because of changing dull moments. But the Old College with circumstances, must have curriculum ad• the eternal spirit of youth and with justments fitted to his particular and good courage meets each new situation peculiar case. gallantly. College financing, which received about 70% of its income from student We are making the best of the pres• ent, and will make the most of the fees and 30% from other sources, now future. faces the necessity of a reversed ratio• about 30% from student fees and 70% FRED PIERCE CORSON. from other sources. Just as quickly as it began, the soldi_er Makes Bequest to College training program has folded up, reqmr• The will of Dr. H. H. Longsdorf, ing major. readjustment of faculty, plant '79, of Centerville, Pa., who died on operation and finances. April 28, contains a bequest of $1,000 Yes, these are times of transition for to the College, and the like amount to the American College. the Carlisle Hospital. He also made a They are also days of testing of the bequest of $1,000 to his sister, Dr. Jessica soundness of college life, for the chance l. Bozorth, '91, of Philadelphia. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 7 Delaware Club to Present Portrait to College ITH 70 present, the annual dinner program, and Dean W. H. Bitchier re• W of the Dickinson Club of Delaware ported on the status of the Law School was held in the DuBarry Room of the in war-time. Robert H. Richards, '95, Hotel DuPont, Wilmington, on March was introduced but spoke only a few 31, the evening following the Philadel• minutes. One of the features of the phia club dinner. The Rev. Walter A. program was an address by Earle D. Hearn, D.D., '14, offered the invocation, Willey, '13, on his experiences in Wash• following the singing of the National ington as Delaware's member in Con• Anthem and Alma Mater, with J. gress. Ohrum Small, '15, at the piano and Rev. Boyd Lee Spahr, president of the ~alph L. Minker, '20, leading the sing• Board of Trustees, thanked the club for mg. accepting his proposal to give the por• Everett E. Borston, '15, retiring pres• trait of Justice Lore to the College. He ident, acted as toastmaster. He an• also gave a resume of developments at nounced progress was being made in a the college and then introduced Presi• project approved by the club's officers dent Fred P. Corson. to present a portrait to the College of W. Reese Hitchens, '28, Wilmington Chief Justice Charles B. Lore, of the attorney, was elected president of the Supreme Court of Delaware. J ustice Lore, who served as a trustee of the club. Three vice-presidents representing College, graduated in 1852 and received _adjacent counties were elected. They an LLD. in 1894. He was an attorney are Leonard G. Hagner, '15; Dr. John general of Delaware, a member of Con• Shilling, '08 and W. Fred Burton, '17. gress and a chief justice. Ivy M. Hudson, '23, was named secre• Gilbert Malcolm spoke briefly about tary and Edward C. First, Jr., '35, the Alumni Fund in opening the formal treasurer.

Alumni Meet in East Orange who was attending the General Con• The annual dinner of the Dickinson ference in Kansas City, and of Dean Club of Northern New Jersey was held Hitchler, who could not be there, Gil• with 34 present on the evening of May bert Malcolm was the only speaker. 2 at Howard Johnson's restaurant in East Orange, N. J. The Rev. Howard R. Breisch, '18, offered the invocation. Doney Fund Continues to Grow Rev. Everett F. Hallock, '30, vice• Gifts from 175 contributors, totalling president of the Club, acted as toast• $600.50, have been received up to May 1 master in the absence of Robert F. La• for the Paul H. Doney Memorial Fund. Vanture who is in service with the Red In the February number it was reported Cross and soon will enter the Navy as that 102 had contributed $352.25. a lieutenant, junior grade. In the busi• A copy of "The Broken Circle," a ness session, Hallock was elected as biography of the late Professor Doney, president of the Club, John P. Milligan, written by his father, Dr. Carl G. Doney, '26, was elected vice president, and Roy and with a foreword by President Fred D. Tolliver was reelected secretary• Pierce Corson, is mailed to each con• treasurer. The nominating committee tributor to the Fund. was composed of Thomas R. Gallagher, The Fund will be set aside as an en• '27, J. Ernest Crane, '11 and Mrs. Eva dowment, and the income will be used I. Townley, '37. for the purchase of books in the college In the absence of President Corson, library. 8 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Four Hundred Fourteen Alumni Are Lifers UDGE Karl E. Richards, president day of the month a $40 payment came J of the General Alumni Association, from Lt. Washington L. Marucci, '41, has moved up the goal of Life Members who is with the army in the Pacific to 500. He earlier set a 400 goal dur• theater. He became No. 399 on the ing his presidency and Capt. R. Edward roll. Steele, '35, now overseas, became the On the first day of March, Capt. R. 400th Lifer on March 1. Seventy-nine Edward Steele, '35, became the 400th new names are published in the roster of Lifer. A physician, he is serving with Life Members in this number of the the Army Medical Corps in South Amer• magazine, these being additions since ica. the last list was published a year ago. The next subscription came from John Of these, 18 have subscribed since the L. Pipa, '22, attorney of Shamokin, Pa., February number went to press. and on March 9, Helen B. Jones, '17, A total of 79 new names is the larg• of Narberth, Pa., became a Lifer. est addition in a year. Last year there Elizabeth Madore, '26, was another were 3 5 new names to make the total co-ed to join the ranks in March. She 335. In this issue there are 414 alumni is secretary in her brother's law office listed as Life Members. in Bedford, Pa. The Class of 19,43 appears in the The Rev. Edgar Cordell Powers, D.D., roster for the first time, and sets a record executive secretary of the Maryland Bible in this first appearance with the listing Society, and honorary alumnus of the of seven names. This is the largest total college, sent in a $40 check in March entered in a single year by any class in to become a Life Member. the history of the fund. The Class of Pfc. Winfield A. Peterson, '43, Army 1941 comes second with five new names, medical student, of Brooklyn, N. Y., a mark which was set last year by the was added to the roll on March 15. A Class of 1927. Four classes, 1920, few days later a check arrived from 1922, 1937 and 1939 each gained four Norris M. Mumper, '12, formerly of new Lifers in the year. California, but now in an important Though standing pat for the third government position in Washington. year in a row, the Class of 1902 with The last March subscription came 19 Lifers still leads all classes. The from First Lieutenant C. Joseph Foulds, Class of 1927, which was tied with 1917 '38, who is serving with a Marine Corps last year, jumps into second place with unit in the Pacific theater of the war. a total of 14, having gained two, while William E. Matthews, Jr., '19, ·of 1917 gained one to total 13 and drop Symrna, Del., handed over his first pay• into a tie for third place with 1915 ment to the alumni secretary the night which added two names. Then follow of the dinner of the Dickinson Club of 1913 with 12 and 1926 with 11, while Delaware. The next subscription ar• four classes, 1903, 1912, 1919 and 1933 rived in the mails from Charles W. have 10 each. Burn, '24, who is head of Bum's As• The February number of THE DICK• sociates, a sales brokerage firm dealing INSON ALUMNUS announced that there in plastics in Detroit. were then 396 Lifers and asked "Who Pausing in flight, Lt. James W. will be the four hundredth?" Since March, '33, of the Army Air Transport then 18 new subscriptions have been re• Command, became the next Lifer. It ceived. Even before that issue of the is believed that his regular run is be• magazine was off the press, two sub• tween Africa and Miami. The next scriptions arrived on the same day from day a letter arrived from a ship on the Henry Line, '38, of Carlisle and Mrs. Pacific and brought the $40 payment of Elizabeth Stone, '34, and on the last Ensign Douglas C. Bell, '43. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 9

Another man in the service became paid the Lemuel Towers Life Member• the next Lifer in the person of Capt. ship Fund wilI total $16,560.00. The Louis Reuter, Jr., '35, who is with an money ls invested by directio~ of t~e infantry outfit at Camp White, Oregon. Alumni Council and only the income is used and that principally for the pub• This was followed by the subscription lication of THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS. of M. Louise Heckman, '33, of Lan• Life membership costs $40 and may caster, and the final one arrived from be paid in full or in installments of $10 Clara J. Leaman, '13, now in Baltimore or $20 a year. Subscriptions should be after her years as a missionary in India. sent to THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS, When the 414 subscriptions are fully West College, Carlisle, Pa.

Life Members of the General Alumni Association 1866 1889 1898 =Dr. Charles W. Super Mrs. Alice K. Meloy Rev. Robert E. Roe 1870 *W. W. Wharton Robert Hays Smith *Judge Edward W. Biddle 1891 Dr. Edmund D. Soper 1872 *Prof. W. W. Landis 1899 •:•Robert H. Conlyn Prof. C. William Prettyman 1873 Donald C. Appenzellar Rev. Dr. Harry B. Stock Harry L. Cannon =Dr. Ovando B. Super 1892 1874 =Rev, Dr. Wilbur V. Dr. A. C. McCrea Mallalieu *C. H. Ruhl Charles E. Pettinos Rev. Otho C. Miller 1876 Rev. Joseph H. Price Stanley D. Shipley •:•Rev. George A. Cure 1893 1878 *Thomas M. Whiteman "Clarence Balentine 1900 Dr. Edward S. Conlyn ]. Henry Baker Boyd Lee Spahr *Dr. James H. Morgan Joseph Bosler, Jr. 1879 William M. Curry l900L *Dr. Harold H. Longsdorf Rev. Dr. Thomas H. Evans L. P. Coblentz 1880 *Dr. Clyde B. Furst 1901 *James Hope Caldwell Mrs. Grace W. Goodyear *Edwin C. Ammerman *Dr. J. Warren Harper *George Metzger Hays *Prof. John D. Brooks ';'Charles K. Zug 1894 Rev. Dr. E. F. Hann 1881 Raphael S. Hays Thomas L. Jones Dr, Persifor M. Cooke Rev. Dr. Albert E. Piper Josephine B. Meredith *Edwin H. Linville 1895 George W. Pedlow 1882 John Perry Wood Paul Appenzellar *Lemuel T. Appold 1902 *Peyton Brown *Miss Amy Fisher Robert H. Richards Lewis M. Bacon, Jr. 1883 Dr. S. Luther Bare John M. Rhey "Fred S. Stitt 1896 *Dr. William W. Betts *Dr. Alexander A. Sharp William Derr Burkey 1884 James L. N. Channell S. M. Drayer Dr. John R. Edwards Dr. M. Gibson Porter *Harry L. Dress 1885 Howison E. Hoover E. Garfield Gifford Merkel Landis Franklin T. Baker William H. Hake Harry L. Price Brig. Gen. Frank R. Keefer M. B. Hockenberry Ruby R. Vale Guy Leroy Stevick Dean M. Hoffman 1886 Dr. Charles E. Zeigler Rev. Dr. Frank D. Lawrence Judge Edward M. Biddle, 1897 Ioseph W. Milburn Jr. Dr. Leon Chamberlain -r». D. Walter Morton *W. W. Salmon Lieut. General S. D. Embick Reuben F. Nevling 1887 Mrs. Anna Geiger Heckman Carl F. New Dr. Eugene Chaney Dr. Edgar R. Heckman Florence P. Rothermel *Dr. W. Blair Stewart Dr. David W. Horn Dr. Wm. C. Sampson 1888 Rev. L. Clarence Hunt Dr. Warren N. Shuman William D. Boyer Mrs. Helen Horn Jordan General James G. Steese Curwen B. Fisher James B. Kremer, Jr. *Robert A. Heberling Samuel H. Miller =Deceased. 10 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

Life Members of the General Alumni Association 1903 1911L 1917 Beverly W. Brown Bayard L. Buckley Ralph M. Bashore Amos M. Cassel 1911 Dr. Fred P. Corson Charles S. Evans Roy Cleaver Dr. 0. J. Eichhorn Elmer T. Grove J. Ernest Crane Jacob M. Goodyear Merrill James Haldeman Charles F. Kramer, Jr. W. F. Greenig *Dr. D. D. Leib T. B. Miller George C. Hering, Jr. Dr. Daniel P. Ray Rev. Dr. Karl Quimby Helen B. Jones Theodore D. Sloat Judge Karl E. Richards Mrs. Mary Bobb Karns R. B. Stauffer Col. Henry E. Smith Nora M. Mohler Bishop Robert N. Spencer Rev. Gordon A. Williams Dr. Roy W. Mohler 1904 1912 Rev. John W. Quimby Lemon L. Smith Mrs. Ruth Heller Bacon David Sharman, Jr. *Judge E. Foster Heller Roscoe 0. Bonisteel Dr. Edwin D. Weinberg Ivo V. Otto Dr. C. C. Bramble 1918 *Capt. John Zug Steese *Willis K. Glauser Dr. F. Donald Dorsey 1905 Norris M. Mumper Paul L. Hutchison Edna Albert John E. Myers Frank E. Masland, Jr. Mrs. Gertrude H. Barnhart Paul R. Renn Rev. Herbert K. Robinson Edward M. Biddle Murray H. Spahr Mrs. Constance S. Trees *Abram Bosler S. Walter Stauffer 1919 George W. Cass Edwin D. Strite M. Clare Coleman Clarence Dumm 1913 Miss Isabel K. Endslow Kent C. Nicodemus Dr. Milton Conover Thomas F. Fagan Rev. Elmer E. Pearce, D.D. Mrs. Lauretta S. Gordon Prof. H. G. Hamme Wm. H. Rogers, Esq. J. H. Hargis *Dr. William G. Kimmel 1906 Carl Hartzell Catherine E. Lobach Dr. Dayton E. McClain Horace L. Jacobs, Jr. Urie D. Lutz James H. Martin Dr. Earl S. Johnston Robert P. Masland M. Scott Mvers Mrs. Julia P. Laise William E. Matthews, Jr. Harry H. Nuttle Clara J. Leaman Robert E. Minnich B. 0. McAnney *Dr. Herbert N. Shenton 1920 Dr. J. I. Tracy Crawford N. Kirkpatrick Capt. George M. Steese Dr. Ralph C. Hand 1907 Rev. Harry S. Henck *H. Walter Gill P. Earl West 1914. Howard G. Hopson George Ross Hull Edgar P. Lawrence Charles M. Kurtz Lee Rogers Allen Rev. Lester W. Auman Dale H. Learn Leon A. Mcintire Rowen C. Pearce Robert F. Rich Joel Claster Col. Charles M. Steese Carlyle R. Earp 1921 1908 Rev. Dr. Walter A. Hearn *I. Howell Kane *Benson B. Boss Dr. C. E. Wagner William M. Young Theodore C. Jones Clyde M. Williams 1922 Rev. George H. Ketterer Maude E. Wilson Albert Berkey Mrs. Ruth R. Shearer 1915 Dr. Albert M. Grant 1909 Everett E. Borton John M. Klepser Charles Langstaff Rev. Arthur A. Bouton Dr. Harry D. Kruse Linette E. Lee William L. Eshelman John L. Pipa Ellsworth H. Mish Hyman Goldstein Raphael E. Rupp 1910 -r». R. B. Kistler Emelyn M. Trine Albert M. Bean *William R. Mohr Dr. Edwin E. Willoughby Rev. Dr. J. Henry Gilbert ·Malcolm 1923 Darlington Hugh C. Morgan Ashbrook H. Church Walter V. Edwards Mrs. Ethel Wagg Selby Robert W. Crist A. Grace Filler J. 0. Small Elizabeth M. DeMaris Lydia M. Gooding Roger K. Todd Donald H. Goodyear Arthur J. Latham David M. Wallace Alta M. Kimmel Henry Logan Dr. G. Floyd Zimmerman Charles I. Richards Marjorie L. Mcintire 1916 Helen E. Shaub Dr. E. Roger Samuel Mrs. A. W. Blumenfeld Guy E. Waltman Robert L. Ganoe 1923L *Deceased. Reynolds C. Massey Lloyd Fisher THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 11

Life Members of the General Alumni Association

1924 1930 Kenneth C. Spengler Charles W. Burn Dr. William D. Angle Lt. Samuel H. Spragins, Jr. Mrs. Ruth B. Raiford Richard U. Bashor Ruth A. Trout Mrs. Elizabeth M. Stone C. Lincoln Brown Samuel Wilker Mrs. Frances S. Vuilleumier Tobias H. Dunkelberger 1937 Dr. John D. Yeagley Dr. Edward Hoberman Lt. Richard N. Boulton 1925 Edgar J. Kohnstamm C. William Gilchrist Alice E. Hackman Mrs. Helen S. Mack Mrs. Anne B. Bennethum George Shuman, Jr. Mrs. Anna M. Preble A. Caroline Nolen 1931 ' Eleanor M. Swope Charles S. Swope Mrs. Eva I. Townley Russel B. Updegraff Dorothy A. Bryan 1926 David T. Davis, Jr. 1938 Mrs. Helen D. Gallagher J. Boyd Landis Donald E. Austin Mrs. Janet H. Hartzell Mrs. Janet R. Landis John F. Bacon Marion L. Herman Gladys B. Lefevre Nancy H. Bacon Lt. C. Joseph Foulds Elizabeth Madore Sarah F. McDonald Henry Line John W. Mahaley Mrs. Alfred B. Merrick Evan D. Pearson Dr. John P. Milligan Robert T. Patterson Earl M. Schroeder Henry B. Suter 1939 Mrs. Andrew M. Smith 1932 Barbara Barakat Margaret S. Steele Mrs. Marian D. Faucett Austin W. Bittle Mrs. Charles L. Warren M. George Feingold Samuel B. Cupp Charles S. Williams Dr. Albert W. Freeman Mrs. Marian R. Sweet 1927 Helmuth W. Joel Lt. Raynor W. Wallace Boyd Lee Spahr, Jr. F. Curtis Yoh Christian F. Baiz 1940 Dr. Wesley Edel Richard H. Zeigler J. 1933 Mrs. Grace D. McFarland Charles F. Irwin, Jr. Mrs. Florence M. Brickey Dr. George H. Jones, Jr. G. Harold Keatley M. Louise Heckman Pfc. C. Blair Kerchner John S. Kreider Mrs. Gertrude B. Holman Jessie A. MacCaffrey 'Wendell J. LaCoe Dr. Kenneth J. Kennedy Mrs. Alice A. MacGregor Rev. J. Wesley Lord Lt. James W. March Mrs. Romayne M. Richards Rev. Kenneth R. Perinchief Christian C. F. Spahr Suzanne A. Young Moredeen Plough Dr. Milton Unger 1941 Fred J. Schmidt DeHaven Woodcock Lt. Christian V. Graf Mrs. Lois Horn Silver Gerald L. Zarfos Mrs. Mary D. Graf Brewster B. Stearns Thos. V. Zug Charles W. Karns, III Dr. Myron A. Todd 1934 Lt. Samuel J. McCartney Dr. Francis L. Willoughby M. Elinor Betts Lt. Robert R. Owens 1928 John B. Fowler, Jr. Washington L. Marucci Dr. Raymond M. Bell Edwin V. Kempfer 1942 Lt. Chauncey M. Depuy Charles H. B. Kennedy Dorothy J. Broverrnan Dr. Joseph E. Green Mrs. Christina M. Vestling Louise A. Dalton Helen E. Hackman Harry C. Zug Charles F. Duncan Dorothy E. Harpster 1935 Mary Rich Snyder W. Reese Hitchens Mary A. Duncan William A. Steckel Arthur Markowitz Lt. Fletcher Krause 1943 Mrs. Janet Forcey Schwartz Capt. Louis Reuter, Jr. Corp. James L. Bacon Dr. John J. Snyder 1929 Capt. R. Edward Steele Ensign Douglas C. Bell Aubrey H. Baldwin, 3d. Howard Crohfree Pfc. Laurence S. Jackson Lydia B. Betts 1936 Lt. Horace L. Jacobs, III Dr. C. Perry Cleaver Capt. Rowland B. Engle Sidney Lee Kuensall Winfield A. Peterson Lieut. Harold C. Koch William D. Gordon John W. McConnell Sherwin T. McDowell Grayson C. Snyder Dr. James Morgan Read John A. Novack Honorary Donald B. Waltman John F. Spahr Dr. Edgar Cordell Powers 12 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Killed When Plane Crashed On Aleutian Mountain IRST Lieutenant Harry Rees Jones, F '41, Air Corps, was killed when he crashed into the northeast side of Mount Adagak on March 13, 1944, according to a War Department letter received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence M. Jones, of 901 Morgan Avenue, Drexel Hill, Pa. The crash occurred near Adak, Alaska, while he was on an operational flight as a flight leader. On June 9, 1941 he received his Ph.B. degree upon his graduation from the college and the next month he enlisted as an Army aviation cadet. He was en• rolled in training in November of that year and received his commission on July 3, 1942. From that date until March 1, 1943 he served as Pilot In• structor in various basic training schools in the south. Then he secured a transfer LT. HARRY R. JONES to tactical training for combat as a fighter pilot. Sometime late in June or Reported Missing in Action· early July he left for the Alaskan area and apparently he was stationed on the Sgt. Leo E. Chaplinsky, '42, was re• island of Adak in the Aleutians from ported missing in action in the European then until the time of the crash. theater in the casualty list released by Born in Upper Darby, Pa., on De• the War Department on April 29. He cember 11, 1919, he attended the schools is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. there. Upon his graduation from the Chaplinsky, of 407 West Oak St., Shen• Upper Darby High School in 1937 he andoah, Pa. entered the college and graduated in A graduate of the J. W. Cooper High 1941. School in Shenandoah, Chaplinsky en• A member of Theta Chi Fraternity, he tered the college in 1938 and graduated became president of the Dickinson chap• with a Ph.B. degree in June 1942, short• ter. He was also a member of Skull ly after which he entered the Army. A and Key and of the Student Senate· and member of the Commons Club, he won the Religious Association. his "D" as a distance runner on the His parents first received a telegram track team. He was on the Microcosm advising them of their son's death and staff one year, and was a member of the then a letter from the War Department Catholic Club and the Dramatic Club. dated March 23, 1944, confirming the telegram but giving few additional facts. Reported Missing Mr. and Mrs. Walter Marshall of Commandant Receives Promotion Collingswood, N. J., have been notified by the War Department that their son, Captain James R. Poach, Jr., who has Walter H. Marshall, '43, has been miss• been serving as Commandant of the ing since April 20. A member of the 32nd College Training Detachment (Air Ari:iy Air Corps, young Marshall was Crew) at the College, was promoted believed to be en route to Africa to en• late in March to the rank of major. gage in the war in that area. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 13 Presidential Citation Honors Pilot Posthumously PRESIDENTIAL c i t a ti o n was A awarded in March to the late Sec• ond Lieutenant John E. Dale, Jr., '40, of Upper Montclair, N. J., as a member of the famous 480th Anti-Submarine Group for "contributing with heroism and superior efficiency to winning the Battle of the Atlantic." It was not until this announcement was made that it was learned at the college that Lt. Dale, first pilot of a Liberator B-24 bomber, was Killed with five others of his 10-man crew in a take-off crash May 11, 1943, in French Morocco. Of his squadron of 240 of• ficers and men, 101 met their death in the battle zone. Following the return of the sur:vivors to this country in De• c~mber, Time published a vivid descrip• tion of the work of this pioneer unit. LT. JOHN E. DALE The 24 bombers in the group served over 12 .months, making trips as far as vestigator with the Chemical Bank and 1,250 miles from base; taking as long Trust Company in New York City, and as 17 hours. attended N.Y.U. at night for courses in the banking field. The group decoration, a royal blue bar encased in gold, was presented to He enlisted in the Army Air Corps Lieutenant Dale's parents. It is the only the day after Pearl Harbor and received decoration worn on the right breast of his pilot's wings on July 26, 1942. He an armr, ur:if~rm. 'J'.he ci~ation in part was selected for bomber training and reads: This is public evidence of de• after five months in December, 1942, served honor and distinction for out• flew his Liberator B-24 bomber overseas standing performance of duty in the and went right into combat. Before he European and North African theaters of was killed he was told that he had operation. This was the pioneer organ• earned the Air Medal, but it was not ization in the establishment of AAF of• until December, 1943, that it was post• fensives against submarines . . . in the humously awarded to him. home waters of the enemy. It con• He was born in Philadelphia on July tributed significantly to the success of 23, 1919, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John the United Nations . . . participating E. Dale. He graduated from the high in all phases of the Battle of the At• school of Montclair, N. J., in 1936 and lantic and defeating the enemy above, entered the college in September of that on and below the sea. From July 6 to year and was a good student. He trans• 11 alone it attacked 12 submarines, de• ferred to Amherst College in Sept., stroying or damaging eight." 1937. His parents reside in Upper After a year at the college where he Montclair, N. J., and his father is presi• became a member of Beta Theta Pi dent of the John E. Dale Coal Company Fraternity, Lieutenant Dale graduated of Jersey City. Besides his parents he is from Amherst College in 1940. He survived by a younger brother, Richard, then secured a fine position as credit in- at horn!" 14 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS A Review of Ten Years (1934-1944) By Boyd Lee Spahr, LL.D., President of the Board of Trustees RED PIERCE CORSON was elected school" and conveyed the title to the Lot F twentieth President of Dickinson to the College Trustees. This lot con• College on June 8, 1934, and formally tinued to be the site of the College un• inaugurated April 5, 1935. A review of til 1803. the ten years of his administration would The original charter provided for appear to be in order. forty trustees, increased to fifty by court The average college alumnus knows decree in 1890, which further provided in a general way that his institution has that four of the additional ten should a board of trustees, but probably many be elected by the alumni. With this of them are not familiar with the powers, exception, the Dickinson Board of Trus• duties and responsibilities of such tees is self-perpetuating. The charter boards. Except in state-owned institu• expressly provides that "persons of every tions and denominational-owned col• religious denomination shall be capable leges, the board of trustees is the legal of being elected trustees, president, pro• owner of a college. It has authority to fessor or tutor", and that no pupil shall elect the college president and faculty, be "denied any of the privileges, im• to grant degrees, to invest the funds of munities or advantages thereof, for or the institution, to fix the rate of tuition on account of his sentiments in matters and other charges and generally to ad• of religion." As a matter of fact, the minister its affairs. Despite these present membership of the Board is broad and responsible powers, college forty, including four trustees elected by trustees are seldom in the limelight. the alumni. The beginning of academic history in The first President of the Board was Carlisle is a deed from Thomas and John Dickinson, who served until his John Penn, Proprietors of Pennsylvania, death in 1808. The first fifty years of dated March 3, 1773, conveying to nine the College were unfortunately marked trustees a plot of land "for the purpose by repeated difficulties between the of keeping and maintaining a grammar trustees on the one hand and the Presi• school", which school was promptly dent of the College and the faculty on opened under the principalship of James the other. The trustees unduly inter• Ross, later distinguished as the author fered in routine matters of discipline, of widely used Latin and Greek gram• which should have been left to the facul• mars, and continued in operation until ty. The President of the College was it was absorbed by the College, which not a member of the Trustees and har• was incorporated by the legislature of monious relations did not always exist. Pennsylvania on September 9, 1783, The administrative difficulties of those seven of the nine grantees of the deed days are fully reviewed in Dr. Morgan's of 1773 being among the Trustees of history. Despite these troubles, in which the College, Ross was immediately both sides were probably at fault, the elected the first professor of languages amazing thing is the remarkable number in the College. The College occupied of graduates of the first fifty years who and enlarged the grammar school build• rose to eminence, including a President ing and the legislature on October 3, of the United States and a Chief Justice 1788, passed an act reciting the grant of of the United States Supreme Court. By 1773, · the incorporation of the College charter amendment in 1834, the Presi• in 1783, and its use of the grammar dent of the College was made the Presi• school building for college purposes, in• dent of the Board of Trustees and oc• cluding "a very respectable grammar cupied these dual positions until 1912. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 15

when the court approved a petition of A review of the figures is interesting. the Trustees to the effect that the Presi• At the end of the fiscal year, July 31, dent of the College should be a member 1934, the endowment was $1,030,132. of the Board, but not its President. At the end of the fiscal year, June 30, I have been a member of the Board 1943, the endowment was $1,530,277, of Trustees since 1908 and its President with additional general fund assets, not since 1931, thus having served with six earmarked as permanent endowment, college presidents. This period of that are available in whole or in part thirty-six years represents an average for current operations, of $283,243. college presidential tenure of six years, Since June 30, 1943, over $116,000 has but this is misleading. President Reed been added to permanent endowment, was elected in 1889 and resigned in bringing it to approximately $1,650,000. 1911, followed by President Noble 1911- If to this is added the general fund as• 1914, President Morgan 1914-1928, sets above mentioned, the resources of President Filler 1928-1931, President the College other than plant assets are Waugh 1931-1933. The longest tenure over $1,900,000. in the history of the College was that of Plant assets were carried at $1,505,588 President Reed, twenty-two years. Presi• on July 31, 1934. On June 30, 1943, dent Nisbet served twenty years and the figure was $1,744,069. This in• President Morgan fourteen, to which may crease includes the rebuilding and en• be added his valued interim service fol• largement of Bosler Hall, the exterior lowing the lamentable death of President improvements to the President's House, Filler in 1931 and again following the the renovation of the old Moore mansion resignation of President Waugh in 1933. as the Baird Biological Building, the ac• The record of the ten year adminis• quisition of the Rebecca McClure Gibbs tration of President Corson more than house as the dormitory for senior women, justifies the hope and expectation that the acquisition of the Sellers residence his tenure will in time surpass that of on High Street, immediately to the west President Reed. of the Gymnasium, and the acquisition In the early days, the resources of the of the parsonage property, immediately College and the number of its students to the east of the Gymnasium. This last were not out of line with the few other mentioned building has been used for colleges of the country; they were all the past year as headquarters of the small and poor. Unfortunately and for commissioned personnel of the 32nd a variety of reasons, we did not share College Training Detachment, U.S.A. in the wealth which has come to most (Air Crew) and will be demolished of the older institutions in the last hun• when the army detachment leaves. dred years. Indeed, it is only in the last It will be recalled that in December twenty-five years that the funds of the 1940 the Trustees authorized a cam• College have reached a substantial figure paign for endowment and building pur• and even today the endowment is less poses to mark the 170th anniversa-r~ of than that of a half dozen other institu• the College in 1943. It was real~zed tions with which the College ranks in at the time that the European war might reputation as one of the outstanding interfere with the successful completion small colleges of America. of the campaign, but that apart from that The increase in endowment funds and possibility the conditions for generous in plant assets during the ten years of gifts were favorable. The early part of President Carson's administration has 1941 was taken up with arrangements been greater than in any corresponding with professional campaign directors, previous period and this is all the more printing of literature, etc., followed by remarkable in view of the fact that the the summer, which is a poor time for time coincides with the depression and intensive campaigns, with the result that with the present war situation. the project did not get well under way 16 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

until the autumn of 1941. The plan the College was thus enabled to throw put i~ operation _was to have intensive this acreage into the field which now campaigns in various metropolitan cen• comprises over twelve acres, with ample ters in succession, thus using the same room, without any overlapping, for both professional personnel in each of them. football and baseball, as well as for The first locality to be canvassed was tennis courts and running track. Along Philadelphia, where the completion of the west side of the gridiron is a per• an intensive drive practically coincided manent brick stand with a seating capa• with Pearl Harbor. At a regular meet• city of 4,000 and there are also portable ing of the College Trustees a week after wooden and iron bleachers for the other Pearl Harbor, the intensive campaign sides. Biddle field is now as fine an was suspended for the period of the war. athletic field as that of any comparable Despite this temporary suspension, sub• college. We are fortunate in not hav• scriptions were received in very sub• ing sunk money, as did many colleges, stantial amounts generally payable in in a huge concrete stadium. three to five year instalments, and to date The most outstanding improvement a total of approximately $160,000 has on the main campus was the complete been paid in. rebuilding and enlargement of Bosler In line with the increase in the en• Hall. Constructed in 1887 this com• dowment, the plant of the College has bined library and chapel was a good been materially improved in the last example of Romanesque architecture ten years. The acquisition of the Moore• which at that time was much in vogue land campus of twelve acres in 1930 in the country, especially for institu• antedates President Corson' s administra• tional buildings, through the architec• tion by a few years, but it was not until ture prominence of H. H. Richardson 1939 that the old Moore mansion was of Boston. Bosler was designed by one entirely remodeled and enlarged and of his students. But the building was named the Baird Biological Building in badly out of harmony with the stately honor of the distinguished scientist, Georgian of West College, designed Spencer Fullerton Baird, of the class of by Latrobe, with East College and with 1840, for use by the Department of the Alumni Gymnasium erected in 1929, Biology. In the same year the Fisher an excellent Georgian design by W. W. property at the southwest corner of High Emmart of Baltimore. These three were and College Streets was purchased and the nearest neighbors of Bosler, the lo• it and the adjoining house, acquired cation of which in a conspicuous part some years earlier, were both demol• of the campus, emphasized its architec• ished. This double property occupied tural incongruity. Bosler, as redesigned the corner of the Mooreland tract near• by Mr. Emmart, in association with est the old campus but had not formed Sydney E. Martin, of Philadelphia, is a part of it. The removal of the houses now a splendid limestone structure giv• gives a fine unobstructed view of the ing the library more than double its Mooreland campus and in due course, as former floor space and including many further buildings are erected on that. other rooms, among them a large recrea• campus, should be ornamented with a tional reading room, equipped by the fine gateway. Trickett Hall, the brick late Alexander A. Sharp, c1ass of 1884, Colonial building of the Law School, is and a room of corresponding size hous• located on the southeast corner of the ing the ever increasing Dickinsoniana Mooreland campus. In 1936 the Col• collection. lege acquired several acres lying to the Begun in a small way about fourteen south of Biddle Field but separated from years ago, the Dickinsoniana collection it by a plotted unopened street. The now comprises several thousand items of Borough Council of Carlisle removed manuscript and other documents relat• the street from the borough plan and ing to the founders, presidents and dis- THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 17

tinguished alumni of the College. It if it stopped with the foregoing recital includes many letters of President Nis• of the material side of the College. bet, John Dickinson, Benjamin Rush, Dickinson has always ranked high President James Buchanan, Chief Justice scholastically. When the comparatively Roger Brooke Taney and others. The few and practically independent chapters collection also contains a leather arm• of Phi Beta Kappa were brought to• chair, mahogany clock, a pair of carving gether in the United Society in the so's, knives, and a marble lion on a pedestal, the first charter granted by the United all of which belonged to John Dickinson Society was that to Dickinson, in 1887, and which were given to the College in as the Alpha of Pennsylvania. Through• the will of his great-granddaughter, the out the years Dickinson graduates have late Maria Dickinson Logan, of Phila• been accepted without question at the delphia. It also contains much of the leading law, medical and other. _grad• apparatus of Joseph Priestley, including uate schools of the country requmng a the famous lens he used in his discovery bachelor's degree for entrance. During of oxygen. These valuable articles were President Corson' s administration, the secured for the College one hundred reputation of the College for sound and twenty-five years ago by Dr. Thomas high class academic work has been fully Cooper, then professor of chemistry, who sustained. had lived with Priestly at Northumber• As indicated above, for over a year land, Pa. the College has had from 700 to 750 Those of us who graduated in the last Army Air students, under contract with century or. the early years of the present the War Department and at the same century will recall the two story hall in time has maintained the operation of its West College, which, from 1804 until civilian liberal arts curriculum with not the building of Bosler in 1887, was more than 225 students compared to the used as the College chapel. At the turn normal 550 to 575 undergraduates. On of the century, the walls were covered January 31, 1944, the War Department with a hideous flowered red paper and announced that Air Detachments in prac• the furniture consisted of a parlor organ tically all colleges which had them and fifty or so collapsible chairs, which would not be replaced, which means an up-to-date undertaker would have that as groups finish their prescribed scorned. On the wall were hung the oil course of instruction the Army students port~aits of four or five of the early will all have left the campus by June Presidents-the sole art collection of the 1st. As the War Department subse• College. Today, through the generous quently announced a great curtailment of gift of the late Lemuel T. Appold of its college program in other arms of the the class of 1882, who was one of the service, it appears likely that for the outstanding benefac~ors of the College, balance of the duration the College will Memorial Hall, dedicated to the Dickin• have to operate, as a liberal arts insti• sonians who fell in World War I, is tution only, with no more than 200 to one of the most beautiful Colonial in• 225 undergraduates, with a resulting loss teriors in the country. of income of approximately $50,000. a The long corridor on the north side year. This is the reason why the appeal of the first floor of West College is now is being made this year to increase the a presidential art gallery, with portraits annual Alumni Fund to $30,000. Des• of all the twenty presidents of the Col• pite this discouraging situation, there is lege. All together the College has no doubt but that the College will be seventy-five oil paintings of founders, able to carry on successfully. presidents and alumni, a collection prob• An indication of the standing of the ably unequaled by any small college in College may be gathered from a recital the country. of the names' of men of distinction who This article would not be complete have been the commencement and con- 18 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

vocation speakers of the College since 1942 Harry F. Byrd, United States 1933. The list is as follows: Senator from Virginia 1933 (commencement) Owen J. 1943 (convocation) Daniel_ L. ~arsh, Roberts, Justice of the United States President of Boston University Supreme Court 1943 (commencement) Oliver James 1933 (convocation) Harold W. Hart, Protestant Episcopal Bishop Dodds, President, Princeton Uni• of Pennsylvania versity 1943 (convocation) Sir Edmund 1934 John Dickinson, Assistant Secre• Vivian Gabriel, British War Com• tary of Commerce mission 1935 Josiah 0. Wolcott, Chancellor 1944 (convocation) Douglas South• of Delaware all Freeman, historian 1936 Charles R. Gay, President of the Dickinson is not "just another col• New York Stock Exchange lege". Both in academic circles and by 1937 Walter A. Jessup, President of college men and women generally, it is the Carnegie Foundation recognized as one of the outstandrng 1938 George ·F. Zook, President of small colleges of the country. To __this th~ American Council on Education happy situation, based on the_ traditions 1939 Dixon Ryan Fox, President of of the regime of President Nisbet start• Union College ing almost two hundred years ago,. t~e 1940 Edwin H. Hughes, Bishop of high standards and successful adrninis• the Methodist Church tration of President Corson have con· 1941 Hu Shih, Ambassador of China tributed greatly.

"Poker Bill" Kintzing Wounded in New Britain OUNDED in action in New Brit• painted the gory picture of the fighting W ain on January 28 after two year's Marines in the Guadalcanal campaign. service in the south Pacific, honored by Shortly after he was wounded in a Presidential citation and wearing the January, the United Press carried a wire Purple Heart medal, Lt. William B. story about "Poker Bill" Kintzing. It Kintzing, '37, U. S. N. R. Medical told how he had been wounded and Corps, has returned to this country for how he refused to be carried back to a hospitalization. He is a wearer of the first aid station by stretcher. He in• Far Eastern theater of war ribbon with sisted that his great height would give stars for major battles in Guadalcanal, the carriers too much of a job and he New Guinea and New Britain. walked back himself. The former basketball star graduated On a 30 day leave from the San Diego from Duke University College of Medi• base hospital where he was assigned for cine in 1940 and served his interneship treatment, Lt. Kintzing was married on at Mountainside Hospital, Montclair, April 22 to Miss Florence Elizabeth N. J. Then he entered the U. S. Naval Magner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reserve Medical Corps and served as a Thomas H. Magner, 52 Prospect St., Naval surgeon attached to a Marine Rutland, Vt. in the Church of Christ detachment which opened the Guadal• the King, Rutland. The bride is a gradu• canal campaign and later took Cape ate of the West Rutland High School, Gloucester air field. class of 1939, and of the Mountainside His name appeared in the September, School of Nursing, Montclair, N. J. 1943 number of Harpers Magzine in For the past year, she has been on the the article "Marine, You Die" which Rutland Hospital staff of nurses. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 19 Co-Ed Serving With the Red Cross in New Zealand LETTER written on March 1st re• dance hostesses. Without these thou• A veals that Elaine Stradling, '35, had sands we could not begin to carry out then been in New Zealand for nine the demands of the men upon our months with the American Red Cross, clubs. and gives an interesting account of her New Zealand is a beautiful coun• work and life there. The letter she try. Of course, there's no place in wrote is as follows: the world like the States, but this Having been in New Zealand for country is lovely. Until recent years, nine months, I have virtually lost con• it was "off the beaten track," so that tact with my Alma Mater. In fact, development was slow. However, I don't even know whether the bul• many people have learned a great deal letins are being published. However, in a short space of time, so that they I am writing this letter with the hope are modern and one could say-almost that the many Dickinsonians whose "Americanized." The girls who go Christmas cards I have not acknowl• on many of the picnics I've learned edged will learn the reason. to know quite well, and they seem Twenty of us arrived here in June, much like our high school seniors 1943, for the express purpose of es• and college freshmen and sophomores. tablishing service clubs and rest clubs After the war, there will undoubtedly for our fighting forces. With eight be plenty of opportunity here for en• clubs and a hospitality center estab• terprising men and women. lished, you can understand that we Since it's about time for me to go have been kept very busy. My own to work, I'll run along now as I wish assignment is in a service club, Dickinsonians all over the world an through whose doors thousands pass early realization of their most cher• daily. After renovations last August, ished dreams-an Allied victory and we now have a modernistic club that their return to happier days of life is a beauty-interior walls of glass more or less as they care to spend it." brick (You may have seen a picture Elaine Stradling. of Mrs. Roosevelt laying one of the bricks. She arrived during the early stages of remodeling.) , neon lighting, Bequeaths $50,000 to College and modern furniture. In addition to the various services offered within the Under the will of Katharine F. Par• club, I have the responsibility of run• sons, late of Philadelphia, who died ning a picnic and two dances each January 21, 1944, the College will re• week. The work has been exceeding• ceive $50,000 upon the termination of ly interesting; the position of being a life estate. The will provides for the able to offer a "bit of America" to establishment of a chair to be known men so long away from home is truly as "The John B. Parsons Professorship," a joyous one. The people back home the income of the fund to be applied have done a splendid thing in financ• toward the salary of the professor, and ing the club program through their further that the choice of the chair is generous contributions to Red Cross. left to the trustees of the College, with In our operating the clubs, we shall the suggestion of a Professor of History. be eternally grateful to the New Mrs. Parsons was the widow of John Zealand women and girls who volun• B. Parsons, who had been President of teer their time and energy so faith• the Union Traction Company of Phila• fully each week, serving as waitresses delphia and of the Philadelphia Rapid in our canteens and dining rooms, as Transit Company and who died August information and checkroom girls, and 14, 1919. 20 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

EDITORIAL Twenty-One Years Old . !TH t?is. issue, Volume 21, Number 4, THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS attains its majority, . . . W Twenty-one years ago in May, 1923 the first issue appeared saying editorially "Bornof a great hope in a cradle of humility, THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS utters this, its first 'blah.' It is conscious of its infirmities but confident that the niche it aspires to fill is a worthy and essential one to the proper development of Dickinon alumni spirit." . . . On this twenty-first birthday, the story of the founding o~ the 1?3agazine can be revealed. At Commencement in 1922 a handful of alumni met in what was supposed to be the meeting of the alumni association and they elected the late Lemuel T. Appold, '82, of Baltimore, president. He. found out aft~rward. that there apparently wasn't any alumni association except in theory and. tr~mediately determined if he was to be president there was going to ?e an associa~1on. One of his first steps was to consider the possibility of publishing an alumni 1?3agazine and he got results in that effort before the alumni association was reorgai:ized ai:id recreated. The magazine appeared in May 1923 and the General Alumni Associa- tion, as known today, came into being in November of that year. . "I would like a magazine which is as easy to read as The Atlantic M~nthly and about the same size" were the only specifications Mr. Appold suggested m his first meeting with Gilbert Malcolm, '15, and Dean M. Hoffman, '02, who have been editor and associate editor throughout the life of the magazi?e. This was Mr. Appold's answer to their questions about what kind of a magazme he wanted. It can be noted here that with minor changes the present format of THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS has been the same in every issue. The first ornate cover design has been discarded, and there were two experiments with other cover designs in early issues before the present cover was adopted and since its adoption it has not been changed. All have carried the same vista of Old West through the 1902 Gate. After several conferences with the proposed editors, Mr. Appold in his characteristic way, wrote a letter sending his check for $1,000 directing that THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS be published. For nearly two years prior to this under• writi?g _there had been !Duch oratory in many ,gat~erings of alumi:ii suprr~ing the publication of a magazine. But Mr. Appold s gift made the birth o his brain child possible, and what the magazine has contributed to the weal of the college in these twenty-one years must be added at least in part to his crown of glory. It was immediately discovered twenty-one years ago, that the "cart had been placed in front of the horse" so far as the mailing lists were concerned. This led to the d~velopme~t of the. Alum~i Office, the present alphabetical lists, class lists, geograp?1cal stencils and biographical records of alumni and the never ending tasks of keeping these correct. The College has paid the bills for this work in salaries !he purchase of elab~rate equipm~nt and supplies. It can be said that today, Dick~ mson has a _we~l-equ1pped alumni office as a by-product of the magazine. Th~ editorial board has been the same f~r 21 years, except that a few years ~go "'\X'.hitfield J. Be}l, Jr.,. '35, bec~me an .associate editor. He is now in Italy serv• mg with the American Field Service, His valued help is missed but he continues to send in material for the magazine. · Accolades must also be tendered to some of the correspondents. Until he re- THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 21

entered ~he Army shortly after Pe~rl Barbo!, Captain .Carlyle R. Earp, '14, writing the Baltimore Notes, had never missed havmg somethmg he had written published in an issue of the magazine. Others who regularly supplied material are C. Grant Cleaver, '94, Major Robert E. McWhinney, '15, Everett E. Borton, '15, lester S. Hecht, '15, the late I. Howell Kane, '21, and Mrs. Ann Bennetheum, '25. Since its birth the magazine owes its growth and support to the thousands of alumni who have paid their annual dues or have become life members in the General Alumni Association. To have served the college is the reward of the editors. If the magazine has done nothing more than inform the alumni of the things they should know and told them of their associates of college days, it has justified itself. If it has added to the recorded history of these twenty-one years, students will treasure it in years to come. Twenty-one years ago it aspired to fill a niche. It is for Dickinsonians to say whether that niche has been filled or not.

Tenth Anniversary HE 1944 Commencement marks the end of the first ten years of the admin• istration of Dr. Fred Pierce Corson as president of Dickinson College. The Talumni hope that the anniversary notches a decade in a life sentence to the president's chair. Boyd lee Spahr, LLD., president of the Board of Trustees, has written "A Review of Ten Years" which is published in this issue of the magazine. It properly records the attainments of the past and reveals the foundations for a fine future in a post-ward world. Because of present conditions in a world at war, there never was a time in the history of the college when fine leadership was so greatly needed. President Corson has clearly demonstrated that he has the ability, energy and capacity to guide the old college through these troublous times. It is fortunate in these days that he is at the helm. In rejoicing with him in the fine accomplishments of his first ten years and in celebrating his anniversary, alumni thank President Corson for his work in the past and in the present and look forward to the future hoping that he will have many more birthdays. The Living Endowment OWHEJ.rn are the small gifts of many ~ore important t~an in the P.resent Alumni Fund campaign for the small gifts of many are just as effective as N the large gifts of the few. If every living Dickinsonian graduate and non-graduate gave $5 annually to the Alumni Fund the $30,000 goal set for 1944 would be passed. There are about 5,400 Dickinsonians whose addresses are known and another 200 or 300 whose addresses are unknown. The receipt of $30,000 by the college in this ninth annual Alumni Fund campaign would be the equivalent to the income from an additional endowment of a million dollars invested at 3%. In this sense, the Alumni Fund is the income from a living endowment. The 1944 Alumni Fund campaign has passed the half-way mark. It has reached that point in part through the small gifts of many. It will need many more small gifts, as well as the large gifts of a few, to reach its goal. 22 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

College Trustee Dies After Lingering Illness

WALTER GILL, '07, member of and the ability to pass it along to others, H• the Board of Trustees since 1928, which made him an outstanding school prominent attorney and civic leader of teacher and lawyer and civic leader. Atlantic City, N. J., died in the city That he never sought political responsi• hospital there on March 6 after_ a li?-• bility may be the public's loss." gering illness. He was first stnken m Born on November 3, 1881 in Coal• 1936 when he was seized with an ar• port, Pa., he attended the schools there terial spasm while working on a case in and then graduated from West Chester his office. He was then found uncon• State Normal School. After teaching scious at his desk and was taken to a for a time, he entered the Dickinson hospital where he lay between life and Preparatory School and then the college death for days but while he finally ral• from which he received the Ph.B. de• lied sufficiently to be up and about, he gree upon his graduation in 1907. The never completely recovered. College awarded him an A.M. in 1912. With Ben. Hinchman, '05, he was At Dickinson, he became a member of co-author of the Dickinson Evening Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity in which Song, and he assisted in the writing of he always maintained an active interest. other songs of the college during his Following his graduation from the days as a member and manager of the college he taught school in Cape May Glee Club. He led the singing at many Court House, N. J., and later became of the meetings of the Dickinson Club supervisor of schools there. He held that of Atlantic City, which he also served position until 1911 when he went to as president. He was a life member of Atlantic City to study law. In De• the General Alumni Association. cember 1913 he was admitted to the Prominent in civic circles of Atlantic New Jersey bar and two years later be• City, he was one of the organizers and came a partner in the law firm of Bolte, a past president of the Kiwanis Club Sooy and Gill continuing until 1926 there. He also served · as an inter• when he opened his own office after national trustee of Kiwanis. He was being admitted to practice as a coun• solicitor of the Chamber of Commerce sellor in 1916. and active in the Boy Scout movement. He was a former president of the He was awarded the Silver Beaver Award Chelsea Title Company, and a president in 1940 in recognition of his work as of the Atlantic County Bar Association president of the Atlantic City Scout in 1927. He had been solicitor for the Council during 1936. Chelsea National Bank and for the Sea• High tribute was paid to him in an board Fire Insurance Company, of which editorial which appeared following his he was also a director. He was a mem• death in the Atlantic City Press, which ber of the New Jersey Bar Association said in part: and was a Mason, a member of the Elks "It is doubtful if there was a more and Moose. widely read man in our section than H. Following her graduation from the Walter Gill. He rightly prized a fine college in 1908, he married Mary E. library, and it was not for looks; he Leinbach, of Reading, Pa., who survives made continuous and intense use of it. him with their two children, a daughter, Only natural, therefore, that his skill in Mary Ellen, now a senior at Wellesley oratory should have crowned in public College, and a son, Lt. (jg) Norman estimate all of the other characteristics, Gill. He is also survived by his mother, such as a broad philosophy of life, cul• Mrs. Ella M. Gill, and a sister, Mrs. ture, pleasing personality, sound learning Augusta E. Walsh. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 23 Young Alumnus Receives Distinguished Flying Cross IEUTENANT CALVIN S. DOPP, service as an aviation cadet June 8, 1942. L '45, whose college career was inter• He trained at San Antonio and Ellington rupted by his enlistment in the Army Field, Texas., before winning his wings Air Corps, has been awarded the Dis• and commission June 24, 1943, at Sao tinguished Flying Cross in addition to Angelo, Tex. the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Lt. Dopp's wife, Mrs. Margaret L. Clusters. This report came to THE Dopp, is now 'residing at 314b NE 10th DICKINSON ALUMNUS from the Public Street, Amarillo. Relations Office of the Strategic Air Forces Hedquarters, bearing the press Receives Legion of Merit censor's stamp dated 17 Apr. 1944, and General Douglas MacArthur has was received on May 8. The official awarded the Legion of Merit to Colonel press release is as follows: Robert E. Woodward, '17, of Summit, An Eighth AAF Bomber Station, N. J. "for exceptionally meritorious con• England-First Lieutenant Calvin S. duct in the performance of outstanding Dopp, 21, of Harrisburg, Pa., bombardier services as Special Service Officer of the on the Eighth AAF Flying Fortress United States Army in the southwest "Holy Matrimony," has been awarded the Pacific area." The citation continues: Distinguished Flying Cross for "extra• "With elements of the command widely ordinary achievement" while participat• dispersed, and with few facilities in• ing in more than a score of heavy bomb• itially available, Colonel Woodward ing assaults on important Nazi targets planned a comprehensive special service in the Reich and the Nazi-held countries program for the command and initiated of Europe. He already held the Air measures for obtaining needed person• Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters. nel and equipment. He completed ar• Lt. Dopp is a veteran of some of the rangements for the broadcasting of radio most important bombing sweeps carried programs for the troops, and for _the out over the Continent in recent months local publication of a weekly magazme. by the Eighth Air Force Fortresses, in• Colonel Woodward, by his foresight, cluding the first attack on targets at organizing ability and energy, contrib• Berlin. Included in his string of mis• uted materially to the recreation, wel• sions to blast vital industrial and military fare and morale of United States forces targets supporting the enemy's war effort in the southwest Pacific area." were four offensives against Brunswick, three to Frankfort, two to Augsburg, and Receive Dickinson Diplomas trips to the shipping cent~r of Hamburg at F. & M. and the plane manufacturing center of Four Dickinsonians in the Naval V-12 Regensburg. unit received their Dickinson diplomas "Strangely, our first mission was our at the Mid-Winter Commencement of worst one, as I remember," recounts Lt. Franklin and Marshall College held in Dopp. "We were out to blast a target the Green Room Theater, Lancaster on at Emden, and we sure had our hands the evening of Feb. 29. Boyd Lee Spahr, full. The skies were full of flak and LLD., '00, president of the Board of fighters-especially fighters. That day, Trustees conferred the degrees. the Forts knocked 138 enemy planes out The sailors who received their of the sky." diplomas were George Benedict, Jr., of The AAF bombardier, son of Mr. and Philadelphia; William Henry Keen, of Mrs. J. Paul Dopp of 2166 N. 7th Street, Lykens· Robert William Long, of Ash• Harrisburg, was attending Dickinson land a~d Ralph Eugene Lower, of Wil• College at Carlisle, Pa., when he entered liamsburg. 24 . THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Letter Reveals Courtship of Justice James Wilson HILE many fine additions are be• it authorize me to think and call you W ing made frequently to Dickinson• mine. Remember what I told you on iana by Boyd Lee Spahr, '00, president this Subject. Your Letter, sent by of the board of trustees, one of his Feb• the next Post, will reach me before ruary purchases throws light on a court• I leave this Place. With Emotions of ship and is unlike the more historica:l the purest and warmest Attachment, documents which he has been acquiring. I am, Many of his recent acquisitions have My dear Hannah, been letters of President James Buchanan. Your affectionate Through Burton Konkle, Mr. Spahr James Wilson acquired an original letter of James Wil• Newport, 20th June 1793 son, dated June 20, 1793, to Miss Han• Miss Hannah Grey nah Grey, whom he was courting and who became his second wife later that Philadelphia Club Meets year. Justice James Wilson of the Su• Dr. William Harvey Perkins, dean of preme Court of Pennsylvania, trustee of Jefferson Medical College, was the guest the College from 1783 to 1798 and of honor and spoke extemporaneously signer of the Declaration of Independ• at the annual dinner of the Dickinson ence, was the author of the letter. Club of Philadelphia, which was held Few of the papers of James Wilson after a year's intermission, in the English are in existence. According to Mr. Room of Kugler's Restaurant on Chest• Konkle one of the ladies to whom the nut Street, Philadelphia, on the evening last decendant of Wilson gave some of of March 30. There were 80 present. Wilson's papers had them in the care David H. Kinley, '17L, retiring presi• of a bank and took some of them out; dent, acted as toastmaster. Following a and .by accident they were destroyed by tribute to Dickinsonians in the armed fire rn her home, among them Wilson's service, Gilbert Malcolm opened the own records of his moot courts and speaking program. He was followed by moot legislatures. The woman probably Dean W. H. Bitchier, of the Law sent this letter to Mr. Konkle, and it School, and then by Dean Perkins. In was saved. The letter follows: his remarks, Dean Perkins stated that My dear Hannah twelve Dickinsonians are at present stu• By this tender though familiar ap• dents at Jeff. He extolled the merits of pellation, permit me to begin, as I a rounded liberal arts preparation for wish to continue my written corres• the student of medicine rather then in• pondence with you. I mentioned that, tensified work in the sciences. at the Conclusion of the Court here Boyd Lee Spahr, president of the I would either see you in Boston, or Board of Trustees, spoke briefly and then write to you, if I could not have the introduced the principal speaker, Presi• Pleasure of seeing you. To this last dent Fred P. Corson, who had also of• Expedient I now see, as I then ap• fered the invocation. · prehended, that, in all Probability, I The Rev. Alexander K. Smith, D.D., must be confined. But why should '25, was elected president of the club I delay Writing till the Conclusion of to succeed Mr. Kinley. Murray H. the Court? Why should not my Pen Spahr, '12, was chosen vice-president Sooner take u·p a Theme so constantly and Mrs. Margaret Day Jones, '15, present to my Thoughts? When I second vice-president. Dr. William C. find it so difficult to delay Writing; Sampson, '02, was again re-elected you may easily judge how much I secretary-treasurer, a post he has held in long for an Answer. Do-let that the Philadelphia Club for a number of Answer be speedy and favorable. Let years. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 25

LETTERS FROM OVERSEAS

Vol. Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., '35, As• Strock, now recovering from an opera• sociate Editor of THE DICKINSON tion, may return to India. ALUMNUS, is in a rest area early in May after months of duty about Cassino driv• On February 11, Lt. E. F. Hann, Jr., mg an ambulance for the British while '.31, of the Navy, wrote from somewhere with American Field Service. He had m New Guinea, sending a one-pound one of the unusual experience's of the note of the Commonwealth of Australia war about which he wrote on March 4 and saying: as follows: Included with this issue was a bit of an extra dividend in the form of a One day I was carrying an ambul• blue slip of paper. Since the only ance load of Indians (the British, not Yank currency in my possession is the Red kind) and as we pulled away my short-snorters certificate I am one of them asked me how long a se?ding a slightly worn picture of tnp we had to make. I told him, King George. If the Australian rate and, surp:ised to find someone speak• of exchange is holding up, it should mg English so well (usually if you cover my deficit for a year at least. get a load of Indians, you drive in The Navy brought me to the South• solemn silence all the way-the war• west Pacific by means of the naval like Gurkhas will smile shyly at you, air transport service. Since it was the but s_peech is impossible), I asked first time I had been up in anything him if he had attended an English other than an elevator or a ferris Scho_ol. No, he replied, an American wheel it was quite an experience to fly m1ss10nary school-only the elernen• the Paoific=-including a few dollars tary grades. He was a farmer. When for the certificate above mentioned. he said "American missionary school," Incidentally, the Pacific is a large I asked him if he'd ever heard of ocean, contains a considerable amount South A:11d~ra Christian College and of water, and looks very lonely from of its principal, Dr. Strock. His face, ten thousand feet when there is no always bright and eager, just beamed. land in sight. "Everybody in India," he said, "knows For no good reason whatsoever I of Dr. Strock." And he wanted to feel inclined to report that I first spent know how I knew of Dr. Strock. I eight months in Australia on the staff told him and told him further what of an air command, communications Dr. Strock had been doing in the last being the field in which my nautical thr;e years, and that he is (he is, career is cast. About two months ago rsn t he?) now on his way back to I was made communications officer on India. The Indian-he was a ser• the staff of an air operational com• geallt-was much interested and mand with incidental duties of run• pleased to know this. A world war ning a radio station for a naval air indeed when a Christian Indian car• facility. Thus-somewhere in New ried by an American driver in an Guinea. Other incidental duties in• ambulance attached to an English volve a study of the producer to con• Army in Italy can find they both know sumer system with regard to cocoanut of a Carlisler and A Dickinsonian ! milk, and an overcoming of the con• By this time, Whit has heard from :'iction that some of those crazy look• Dr. Strock, '03, who is in Baltimore mg fish could not be found outside awaiting the day when he and Mrs. an aquarium. 26 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

Returning to the justification for disclose. It is covered with dense jun• this letter, it was a great treat to read gles; inhabited by backward Me~anesian the names and recall the faces of old natives; and infested with myriads of friends who once lived, moved and every type of insect. T~e contras~ be• had their being under the kindly gaze tween the life I am leading on this is• of the Mermaid. I particularly ap• land and the life I led while at.tending preciated reading the names of those Dickinson is crystal clear. I don t know who are new in the service, none of what is to be my fate, but I know that whom have I had the good fortune to I am fighting for principles and ideals meet as yet. It seems quite natural in which I firmly believe. The oppor• that the College should be making tunity to acquire a liberal education is such a large contribution to the war, one of them." and let us hope that the spirit of Dickinson will be felt just as ex• tensively in the making of the peace." Baltimore Club Meets Lt. John W. Ell, '40, sent in a sub• With 50 present the annual_ dinner of scription some time ago to the Paul H. the Dickinson Club of Baltimore was Doney Memorial Fund, and a copy of held in the Harlem Park Methodist the book issued to subscribers was mailed Church on the evening of March 10. to him. On April 11 he wrote from Ladies of the church prepared and served somewhere in England saying, "Received the dinner. The Broken Circle' and read it with The Rev. James J. Resh, '97, com• the deepest interest, for, with due re• pleting a two year term as president of gard for the other fine teachers I had the club, acted as toastmaster and pre• to instruct me, Dr. Doney was ever my sided over the business session. Greet• favorite. He was a.JI his father said of him. Since being in England, I have ings of the club were _sent to Harry L. Price, '96, former president of the club had many occasions to remember the and also of the General Alumni Asso• debt I owe him for the stimulation I re• ceived from the courses in English liter• ciation, who was then a patient in the ature I took under his guidance. Dr. Maryland General Hospital. Doney was a great man and an excellent Dr. M. G. Porter, '84, physician of teacher." Roland Park, was elected president in the business session. Clarence M. Lt. Robert R. Owens, '41, who is Shepherd, '10, who served as president with an anti-aircraft unit, wrote on April some years ago was elected vice-presi• dent, and C. Wesley Orem, '35, was 11 "Life in England pursues its system• atic progression towards its obvious cul• reelected secretary. Irene G. Yaeger, mination. The most of us know no '42, was chosen as treasurer. more that is particular than you who "The Philosophy of Education" was read the newspapers. We have no the subject of the address delivered by choice but to wait." President Fred P. Corson. Mrs. Corson was also a guest at the dinner. Dean W. H. Hitchler of the Law School and Gil• Lt. Martin H. Lock, '39, is with an bert Malcolm were the other speakers. infantry cannon company somewhere in The Rev. Kemp Horn, pastor of the the South Pacific. When he sent in a church, offered the invocation. Mrs. contribution to the Alumni Fund in Forrest G. Cromer, soloist of the church March he wrote: "I am on an island• with Mrs. Smyser at the piano, sang thousands of .miles from the states the two numbers "Homing" and "Katy name of which I am not permitted to Did". THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 27

• -1e * 1,058 Stars In Dickinson's Service Flag * * *

INCE the February number of THE 1930 Lt. (jg) C. Lincoln Brown, USNR S DICKINSON ALUMNUS was pub• Lt. (jg) C. Spencer Davison, USNR lished, it has been learned that 32 more A/s Robert E. Knupp, Navy Dickinsonians have either recently en• Major DeArmond J. McHenry, Army Medi- tered the services or have been in the cal Corps Army or Navy. This brings the total 1931 Lt. (jg) Robert F. Lavanture, USNR number of Dickinsonians in the various 1932 services to 1,058. Lt. (jg) Boyd Lee Spahr, Jr., USNR The names of five more co-eds, bring• 1933 ing their total to at least 18, appear in Lt. (jg) Fred E. Crosley, USNR Joseph R. Maguire, Army this issue. Dr. Frances Willoughby, '27, 1934 Michigan physician, is in the Navy Med• Lt. (jg) R. Wayne Foor, USNR ical Corps; Pvt. Muriel Wood Hiller, 1935 '40, is a WAC; Norma Gardner, '43, is Ensign James W. Nelson, USNR a WAVE, while M. Elaine Stradling, M. Elaine Stradling, American Red Cross 1936 '36, and Virginia E. Heisey, '39, are Ensign Harold B. Canada with the American Red Cross. Chaplain Daniel K Davis There are 15 men serving as chaplains 1937 in the Army or Navy, a number of them Sgt. Ralph Bell, Army now in foreign fields or on ships at sea. Pvt. Robert M. Glass, Army 1938 Reports of promotions and transfers A/s Charles W. Montgomery, Jr., USNR of service men and women appear in the Ensign Henry C. Remsberg, USNR class personals. Because of censorship 1939 regulations, complete addresses of troops Ensign Joseph D. Brenner, USNR overseas cannot be published. When Virginia E. Heisey, American Red Cross Lt. Raynor W. Wallace, Army desired by alumni these will be furnished 194-0 on request to Gilbert Malcolm, Alumni Pvt. Muriel Wood Hiller, WAC Secretary. Those in the service are also 1941 requested to write him, giving their Ensign William B. Kerfoot, U?NR Pfc. Carl H. T. Sieg, Army Air Corps addresses and any information about 1942 promotions, meetings with Dickinsonians James P. McConlogue, Army Air Corps or news which will be of interest to their 1943 classmates. He regularly writes to Dick• Norma Gardner, WAVES insonians in all parts of the world and Lt. William Paterson, Army Air Corps 1944 passes along the information he receives. Pvt. ]. Irving Stineman, Army Thirty-three names are published in 1945 this issue, but the net gain is 32. Robert Hobart C. Jeter, Navy Air Corps F. Lavanture, '31, was previously listed Lt. Thomas 1. Rockwell, Army as serving with the Red Cross. He has just been commissioned in the Naval Receives Honorary Degree Reserve and reports for training this The Rev. Francis R. Bayley, D.D., re• month. The new names are as follows: ceived the honorary degree of Doctor of 1911 Laws at the first mid-winter Commence• Commander Charles Hastings, Navy ment of Western Maryland College, 1927 Westminster, Md., on February 11. Dr. Lieut. John S. Kreider, USNR Bayley, who graduated from the College Lieut. Frances Willoughby, USNR in 1900, is pastor of the Wilson Memo• 1929 rial Methodist Church of Baltimore. John McCrea, Army 28 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

PERSONALS

1895 denly on March 25 in the parsonage of the Rev. Louis Hieb is pastor of the First Methodist Church, Lansdale, Pa. Besides her Congregational Church at Ravenna, Nebraska. husband, · she is survived by two children, Willard M. Amthor, Jr., and Mrs. Charles 1896 Jenson, of Oak Lane, Pa. Ruby R. Vale, attorney of Philadelphia Col. Charles M. Steese mailed a letter on and Milford, Delaware, is an annual visitor March 15 giving his new address as Ameri• to Florida in the winter. In March, he was can Embassy, APO 887, c/o Postmaster, elected president of the Old Guard Society New York. at the annual meeting in Palm Beach. 1910 Lina Hartzell, art supervisor in the Carlisle 1900 High School, attended the meetings of the Elbert V. Brown, Carlisle who was a re• Eastern Art Teachers Association held in conciler in the Penna. State Treasury, Har• New York in April. risburg, for five years has been transferred to the office of Auditor General and assigned 1911 as auditor to pay rolls for State Aided In• Robert L. Imler is counsel for the Sinclair stitutions under the Welfare Department. Prairie Oil Company with offices in the Sin• clair Building, Tulsa, Oklahoma. 1901 Col. Richard R. Spahr of the Army Med• Miss Janet Yoder, daughter of Frank E. ical Corps, is visiting his home in Mechanics• Yoder, of 307 William Street, East Orange, burg after 21 months service overseas. He N. J., was killed in a plane crash at Spring• has been stationed in England, North Africa field, Mo., several weeks ago. The crash and Italy, and has been in command of occurred when she was en route to report service hospitals. for duty in the WASPS. 1912 . 1903 Norris M. Mumper spent several years working on the elimination of German air Lt. Col. Edgar S. Everhart, of Lemoyne, lines. More recently he has been serving as Pa., medical chief of the State Selective Serv• director of aviation, for Nelson Rockefeller, ice System of Pennsylvania since its organ• Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. ization in 1940, was retired because of age on March 23. Dr. Everhart resumed di• 1913 rectorship of the State Health Department's P. E. ("Zeke") West has been promoted venereal disease division, a position he held from the rank of major to that of lieutenant continuously since 1920, except for an 18- colonel. He is serving with an Army Air month interval during the administration of Forces service group in England. the former Governor George H. Earle. Andrew R. Hummell is now living at 1621 Mrs. Jacob Hertzler, wife of Jacob 0. S. Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. Hertzler, attorney of Erie, Pa., died at their home there on March 16. 1913L 1905 Lisle D. McCall, attorney of DuBois, Pa., Mrs. Catherine Bell Greybill, wife of Harry died there on September 27, 1943, at the H. Greybill of Harrisburg, died on March 2. age of 53 years. He was a member of Delta Besides her husband she leaves a son, Henry Chi fraternity. M.; two daughters, Barbara and Mrs. Thelma 1914 Mercurio, of Harrisburg, and three grand• Walter B. Numbers is now teaching at children. Brown Military Academy, Pacific Beach, San 1906 Diego, Calif. The Rev. Roy M. Dunkleberger, D.D., 1915 who spent 30 years in India as a missionary Lt. Harold A. Fasick, Jr., son of Mr. and of the Lutheran Church, is serving a parish Mrs. Harold A. Fasick, of Providence, R. I., in Myersdale, Pa., while awaiting govern• is a fighter pilot who has been overseas since ment approval for missionaries to return to March 1943. He is now based somewhere foreign fields. in India after having engaged in campaigns 1907 in Africa, Sicily and Italy. Mrs. Florence Miller Amthor, wife of the One of the pictures in the May 1, 1944 Rev. Willard M. Amthor, D.D., died sud- issue of Life accompanying the article "Air THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 29

Group Nine Comes Home," is that of "One this was also true of his election as a re• Slug" McWhorter. The caption reads in serve delegate to the General Conference. part "McWhorter is shown at the piano with He was elected Lay Leader of the North Dis• his wife of 14 months, Louise, daughter of trict of the Philadelphia Conference, com• Captain William Edel, senior chaplain at prising about 95 churches. Sampson Naval Training Center, near Ro• Rev. Harry S. Henck is pastor of St. James chester, N. Y. Lieut. (jg) Hamilton Mc• Methodist Church in New Brunswick, N_ ]. Whorter, III, is 23 and holds the Navy carrier record of 10 Japanese planes. Life 1922 quotes one of his wingmates as saying of Reuben L. Sharp was promoted to the him: "This is how it works with Mac. rank of commander in the medical corps of Once, over Tarawa, we ran into this Jap the Navy in March while he was serving in torpedo plane. I made a run on him, used the invasion of the Kwajalein atoll. up half my ammunition and nothing hap• Dr. Edwin E. Willoughby of Washington pened. Mac came up, gave him one burst addressed a group of college students on the and the Jap blew up. That's all it takes evening of March 1 on the 16th and 17th him. Just one shot." century literature and printing. 1917 1922L Paul M. Dutko is now stationed at the Robert L. Goeltz signed a petition in American Embassy, Moscow, Russia. March for admission to the Cumberland Colonel John Gilbert White passed through County Bar. For some years "Red" has Carlisle on May 2 en route from Iceland to been an attorney for the Reconstruction Fi• the Walter Red General Hospital, Washing• nance Company and general counsel for the ton, D. C. where he was going for physical Union Bag and Paper Company in New York examinations and treatment. City. With Mrs. Corson, President Fred P. Cor• 1923 son attended the sessions of the General Ashbrook H. Church has become director Conference of the Methodist Church in Kan• of research and replacement for the Rickest sas City in April and May. Shafer Co., Erie, Pa., after spending two 1918 years in the Training War Production Super• visors. His new address is 921 Liberty St., Dr. J. Murray Barbour, who is a member of the faculty of Michigan State College, Erie, Pa. 1924 which has had an army training program, writes, "I have been teaching more mathe• Capt. C. M. Wallace is serving with a matics than music during the past two years medical detachment of. an army engineer and still have a class in analytical geometry aviation battalion somewhere in the Pacific for service men." His son, Jim, has been in theater. He left for overseas in March. the Marine V-12 program at the University of Newton Randolph is now on assignment Michigan for almost a year, .and is now in in Dakar, Africa, but expects to be present his junior year there. for the 20th reunion on May 27. Lt. Col. John D. Yeagley of the Medical 1919 Corps is now stationed in Washington. He Ralph H. Spare resigned as secretary of entered active service in October, 1942, when the Pottstown Chamber of Commerce to be• he was assigned to Bowman Field, Kentu~ky. come industrial secretary and a member of He spent two months at the School of Tropical the staff of the Harrisburg Chamber of Com• Medicine in Washington, and was then as• merce on April 8. He previously served as signed to the Troop Carrier Command at secretary of the Milton Chamber of Com• Laurenberg-Maxton Air Base. In February, merce, and is a past president of the Penn• 1943, he was transferred to the Division of sylvania Commercial Secretaries Association. Health and Sanitation which has field par• Mrs. Spare, the former Ruth L. Niesley, and ties operating in 18 Latin American repub• their two sons will move to Harrisburg at lics. He received his promotion to the rank the close of the present school term. of lieutenant colonel on January 27, 1944. 1920 1925 At the recent session of the Philadelphia Norman W. Lyon has moved from Geneva, Conference, Dale H. Learn, of East Strouds• N. Y. to 402 E. Maiden St., Washington, burg, was elected delegate to the Jurisdic• Pa. tional Conference of the Methodist Church J. Vernon Hertzler of Carlisle has been which will be held in Ocean City, N. ]. in promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. June. He was the only delegate elected He has been recently stationed at Ft. Sam from outside the city of Philadelphia, and Houston, Texas. 30 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

1926 rank of full commander in February, when Dr. John P. Milligan recently wrote a he was stationed at the Naval Proving Ground Jetter to the college reading as follows: at Dalhgren, Va. 1930 "John Padgett Milligan, Jr., will be one ( 1) year old on February 21, 1944. Major DeArmond J. McHenry is attend• Enroll him now to enter Dickinson in ing surgeon of the 1300th Service Unit, September, 1961-Class of '65. I couldn't U. S. Army, at Baltimore. He has been in enroll him last year. I had to wait the army for more than two years. Form• until he was old enough to decide for erly he was in general practice at Hallam, Pa. himself. Dr. Edward S. Kronenberg, Jr. of Carlisle "He is a right-hander. He can pick was appointed Cumberland County prison up a baseball (regulation) and throw physician in February, following the resig• it three feet." nation of Dr. H. H. Longsdorf, '79, who Dr. George H. Armacost, who has been held the post for six years. serving as Acting Dean of Men at the Col• Robert E. Knupp, '32L, of Harrisburg, lege of William and Mary since July 1, 1943, Pa., entered the naval service in March and has been appointed director of the summer was sent for training to the U. S. Naval session and chairman of the Department of School at Great Lakes, Illinois. Education to succeed Dr. Kremer ]. Hoke, Pfc. John L. Mangan, who was in ASTP who died on February 6, 1944. training at Grinnell College, was assigned Dr. Leslie J. Schwalm, of Pottsville, Pa., on the termination of that program to Co. B, is a lieutenant commander in the U. S. N. R. 1252 Engr., Bn., Camp Swift, Texas. Medical Corps and is serving with a mobile C. Lincoln Brown, Jr., of Merchantville, hospital unit in the Pacific. N. J., was commissioned a Lieutenant (jg) in the U. S. Naval Reserve last month and 1927 reported for i;idoctrination at Fort Schuyler, Dr. Frances Willoughby was commissioned N. Y. on April 28. a lieutenant, senior grade, in the Medical Dr. C. Spencer Davison, of Salem, N. J., Corps of the U. S. Naval Reserve, on Febru• is serving on a destroyer as a Lt. (jg) in ary 14. In March she was assigned for the U. S. N. R. Medical Corps. He entered duty as a psychiatrist at the National Naval the service in July 1943 and first served at Center, Bethesda, Md. She is on military Camp Peary, Va., then at Parris Island and leave of absence from Michigan State Hos• later at Huntington, W. Va. pital, Traverse City, and plans to return there Dr. Harold W. Weigel, Assistant Professor after the war. of German at the Pennsylvania State College, Lieut. John S. Kreider, USNR, is stationed was recently elected to a two-year term as at the Naval Air Station, Ottumwa, Iowa. president of the Pennsylvania State Modern William A. McAdoo has recently been Language Association, succeeding Prof. Frank promoted to the rank of captain in the Army ]. Goodyear, Jr., '25, of the John Harris Chaplains Corps. He is now on the Fiji High School, Harrisburg, Pa. Islands, having been transferred from an in• Dr. Albert Winkler, surgeon-dentist of fantry unit to an air base. Trenton, N. J., who has been with the Army Theodore F. Bowes, who is in the Army Air Corps in Richmond, Va., for some time, Air Corps stationed at Wright Field, Day• has received his promotion to the rank of ton, Ohio, has been promoted to the rank of major. Lieutenant-Colonel. 1931 1929 Richard H. Wagner has been promoted After six years as pastor of the Trinitarian from second lieutenant to first lieutenant at Congregational Church in Taunton, Mass. the Quartermaster School, Camp Lee, Va. the Rev. Paul B. Myers became pastor last Donald S. Himes was promoted from the October of the Phillips Congregational Church rank of major on February 19 to that of lieu• in Watertown, Mass., a suburb of Boston. tenant colonel. He is stationed at the Howard S. Spering is one of the legal Quartermaster School Camp Lee, Va. counsel for the Rubber Commission in Wash• ington and is living at 2611 N. Powhatan Robert F. Lavanture, who has been serv• Street, Arlington, Va. ing with the American Red Cross, has ac• Rev. Paul R. Moyer is pastor of the cepted a commission as Lt. (j.g.) U. S. N. R. Congregational Church at Watertown, Mass. and reports at Fort Schuyler, N. Y. for John McCrea, attorney of Newville, entered indoctrination training on May 27. the army in February, and was assigned to Roy D. Tolliver recently resigned from the infantry at Fort McClellan. teaching, and is now in the Personnel De• Frank Geibel, who is serving in the Med• partment of the General Electric Company of ical Corps of the Navy, was promoted to the Newark, N. J. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 31

1932 Army Air Transport Command and is prob• Capt. Albert W. Freeman is with· an air ably flying regularly between Florida and unit in New Guinea, and has been in the Africa. service for nearly two years. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Epstein, 949 West Mrs. Walter S. Booth (Matilda Nogi) End Avenue, New York City, have announced and her daughter, Patty Kay, have returned the birth of a son, David Hayrn, on Febru• to Elizabeth, N. ]., from Oakland, Calif., ary 2. where they had joined Dr. Walter Booth, Lt. Theodore F. Eichhorn of the Marine who is a lieutenant in the USNR. Dr. Booth Corps, who had been stationed in Washing• was recently detached from the 128th Battalion ton, was assigned to Camp Pendelton, Ocean of C. B.'s at Camp Parks, Calif.; and is Side, California. now serving as ship doctor somewhere in After a period of training at the Aberdeen the Pacific. Proving Ground following a long tour of Herbert A. Heerwagen, of Short Hills, duty in Washington, Capt. Roy R. Kuebler, N. J., was changed from barrister to private Jr. received an address change late in April in the Army on February 19. He was as• to Ordnance Dept., APO 4301, c/o Post• signed to 60th Signal Radio Intelligence Co., master, San Francisco, California. Camp Crowder, Missouri. Lt. William Billow, U. S. N. R., visited Pfc. John P. Gallagher has been transferred Carlisle in March. He had been stationed to Co. D, 27th Sig. Bn., Barracks 1524, in Seattle, Wash., and following some work Camp Crowder, Mo. "in the nation's capital went to San Diego, Boyd Lee Spahr, Jr. has received a com• Calif. for duty there. mission as lieutenant, Junior grade, in the U. S. Naval Reserve. He will report for in• Joseph R. Maguire of Tremont, Pa., is doctrination training at Princeton University serving in the Army somewhere in England. the latter part of June. 19311 At the recent session of the Newark An• nual Conference, the Rev. Lowell M. Atkinson Lt. John Bieri wrote a letter on April 22 was appointed to the pastorate of the Metho• which reveals that he is with an evacuation dist Church in Hackensack, N. ]., and trans• hospital somewhere in northern Ireland. ferred from the membership of the Baltimore Mr. and Mrs. William R. Woodward Annual Conference to the Newark Confer• have moved to 205 Pleasant Street, Arling• ence. His new address is 352 State St., ton 74, Mass. Hackensack, N. j. Ramsey Lewis Frank, 9-year-old son of Lt. (j.g.) Robert Williams, after being the Rev. Nelson Frank, pastor of the Metho• instructor at Cornell University for some dist Church, Mechanicsburg, was seriously time, passed through Carlisle in April on injured when struck by automobile on April his way to duty aboard a transport in th~ 17, a short· distance from his home. Pacific. Philadelphia newspapers recently carried Major Robert A. Waidner returned to this the story that Marie M. Formad and her country in March after 18 months on the sister, Charlotte K. Formad, '38, will share staff of General Chennault in Australia, India the bulk of the estate of more than $106,000 and China. He is now attending the Gen• of their aunt, Dr. Marie K. Formad, well• eral Staff Command School at Fort Leaven• known gynecologist of Philadelphia, who died worth and intends to return to China in February 21. Dr. Formad, member of the June. "Bob" who was with the Flying staff of Women's Hospital until her retire• Tigers in China says everything the outfit ment six years ago, bequeathed $5,000 to uses must be flown over "The Hump" from her brother, and left the residue of her estate India, except their food which is furnished to her nieces, in equal shares. by the Chinese. He avers that he has "eaten R. Wayne Foor of Harrisburg has recently acres of cabbage." What he might say would been commissioned a lieutenant, junior grade, fill a book, but censorship necessarily seals in the U. S. Naval Reserve, and went to Ft. his lips. Schuyler, N. Y., for his indoctrination train• 1933 ing. Lt. Milton Davidson after serving for Lt. Herschel E. Shortlidge, Jr., is with an some time in the Officer Procurement Division ordnance ammunition company somewhere in of the Navy in Philadelphia, is now on duty England. in the Sou th Pacific. 1935 David Silver will graduate from the U. S. Capt. R. Edward Steele, '35, became the Military Academy, West Point next month. 400th life member on March 1. He is now Fred E. Crosley was commissioned a lieu• Chief of Surgery in the U. S. Army Hospital tenant (jg) in the USNR in February. at Surinam where he has been since February. Lt. James W. March is serving with the Prior to that, he was Surgeon of the Station 32 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

Hospital at a camp near Cayenne, French appointed executive secretary of the Harris• Guiana. burg Girl Scout Council. She succeeds Vir• Dr. Donald K. Mcintyre of the Hartford ginia E. Heisey, '39, who has entered the Hospital, Hartford, Conn., was married on service of the American Red Cross. Miss March 4 in the Emanuel Methodist Church Lechthaler was formerly a visitor for the in Oaklyn, N. ]. to Lieut. Jes~ie Watt ~f .the Cumberland County Board of Assistance. Army Nurse Corps. She is a sister of Wilham Pfc. Millard Altland is serving overseas Watt, who is a sergeant in the Army in with an ordnance maintenance company. Part England. Frederick Gladeck, Jr., '34 was of his address is APO 308, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. ' best man. Ensign James W. Nelson, Philadelphia Harold E. Hench, who has been at Camp Attorney has been in the service for the past Pickett, has been promoted to the rank of six months and is now on a transport in the captain and assigned to the Advanced Infantry School at Ft. Benning, Ga. Pacific. Lt. (jg) and Mrs. Jack H. Caum are living Sgt. Ralph Bell is with Battery D, 71st AAA Bn., Camp Stewart, Ga. at 409 26th St., Virginia Beach, Va. Jack is stationed temporarily at the Armed Guard 1938 School, Norfolk, and may go to sea in July. Moses K. Rosenberg, lawyer of Harrisburg 1936 Pa., has been promoted to the rank of lieu'. Frank A. Mader has been promoted to the tenant, junior grade, in the Navy and is on grade of Master Sergeant and is now statio:ied active duty in the Pacific. with the Second Signal Service Battal10n, Henry C. Remsberg, who had been super• Washington, 25, D. C. visor of music in the public schools at Lans• Clarence Winans was married to Lorraine ford, Pa., entered the Navy as an ensign late M. Eyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Stewart in February, and was assigned for training Eyer of Nazareth, Pa., on October 10, 1943. to Ft. Schuyler, New York. He is now taking The couple now live in Linden, N. ]. where . a four months course at Harvard University. Winans works with a road construction firm. Walter V. Edwards, Jr. was promoted to Chaplain Daniel K. Davis, USNR, is sta• the rank of captain in the Army Medical tioned at the Naval Hospital, Pensacola, Fla. corps in March just prior to his departure Lt. John A. Novack has been transferred that month for services overseas with a hos• from Rome, N. Y. to the Army Air Base, pital unit. Columbia, South Carolina. 1st Lt. C. Joseph Foulis of the Marine Chaplain and Mrs. William E. Kerstetter Corps, who is serving in the Pacific, became have announced the birth of a son, William a life member in March. Edward Kerstetter, Jr., on April 13. Chap• Charles W. Montgomery, Jr., of Altoona lain Kerstetter is serving with the Army Air entered the U. S. Naval Training School at Forces. Great Lakes in March. Lt. John B. Care of Linglestown was mar• Staff Sergeant Samuel B. Creveling, Jr., is ried to Miss Catharine K. Class, daughter of stationed at Lowry Field, Denver, Col. His Mr. and Mrs. John K. Class of Harrisburg wife, the f?rme; Madelyn Schultz, a graduate in the Twenty-ninth Street United Brethren o~ th~ University of North Carolina, joined Church on April 8. him .m S:olorado after .completing a year's Dr. James S. D. Eisenhower, Jr., upon the teaching m North Carolina, They reside at completion of his interneship at Jefferson 1470 Logan St., Apt. 34, Denver. Hospital, Philadelphia, has opened an office Lt. (j.g.) and Mrs. John B. Gates have for the practice of medicine at 23rd and announced the birth of a son, James Kirkwood Central Avenue, Wildwood, N. J. Gates, II, on February 26. Mrs. Gates is Harold B. Canada has been commissioned the former Mary Helen Person. an Ensign in the Navy and has for his ad• dress 131 West Elm St., New Haven, Conn. 1939 George W. Shroyer is now a Lieutenant 1937 serving with the 742d Field Artillery Battal• John T. S. Och has been promoted to the ion, Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. rank of lieutenant, junior grade, in the Naval 2d Lt. and Mrs. William D. Reese are Reserve. Since January, 1943, he has been living at 1317 S. C. Street, Fort Smith on active duty in the Pacific. Arkansas. ' Lt. and Mrs. Samuel Bookbinder, of 153 The Rev. James W. Lewis is pastor of the Shepard Avenue, Newark, N. J., announced First Lutheran Church, Windber, Pa. the birth of a son, Martin Edwin, on March Joseph D. Brenner, graduate of the Col• 14. lege and of the Harvard School of Business Miss Mary Caroline Lechthaler has been Administration, has been commissioned an THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 33

ensign, USNR, and reported for his indoc• Medical Administrative Corps, mailed his $40 trination course on April 27. Prior to that, check for life membership on Washington's he was production manger of the Harrisburg Birthday. He was promoted to the rank of Machinery Company. first lieutenant on February 3 and assigned Mr. and Mrs. John Andrew Johnson an• to duty at the U. S. Engineer Office in nounce the marriage of their daughter, Nancy Minneapolis. Kincaid, to Capt. Robert Earl Banker, U.S.A., James A. Kerr has been given a leave of on March 4, at Camp Maxey, Texas. absence as instructor of English composition Mr. and Mrs. George A. Hansen, Jr. an• in Pennsylvania State College to work in the nounce the birth of a daughter, Anne Crevel• extention publicity department. ing Hansen, on August 25, 1943. Mrs. Rev. Louis C. Leaming and Mrs. Elizabeth Hansen is the former Mary B. Creveling. Dunkerly Leaming announced the birth of a Virginia E. Heisey has entered the service son December 24. They now reside at 19 of the American Red Cross and is attending W. Broadway, Mauch Chunk, Pa. The American University for orientation. Samuel J. McCartney, Jr. has been pro• Harold B. Fry has been promoted to the moted to the rank of lieutenant, Junior grade rank of first lieutenant. He is assistant plans in the U. S. Naval Reserve. He is on the and training officer at the Basic Training staff of a commander of a group of LST Center of the Army Air Forces, Greensboro, ships in the Mediterranean. N. C. First lieutenant Frank B. Donovan is with Corporal Henry E. Mangle is with a signal a bomber group in the European area. service company overseas and is believed to John I. Jones was promoted to the rank be in Algiers. of lieutenant senior grade in the U. S. Naval Joseph Bernecky bas been overseas for Air Corps on April 1. He is on duty at the more than two years, and is stationed some• Naval Air Station, Atlantic City, N. ]. . where in India with an engineers'. battalion. Ensign and Mrs. William B. Kerfoot an• Sgt. I. C. Sutton is now stationed in Eng• nounce- the arrival of twin sons, William land with a Field Artillery Unit. He is with Buchanan and Wilson Charles, on March 13. the Headquarters Battery. Ensign Kerfoot is in the dispersing office of the Naval Air Station in New York City. 1940 Pfc. Carl H. T. Sieg is serving in England Lt. Kenneth M. Gorrell who bad been with a fighter wing of the Army Air Forces. stationed in Santa Ana, California, went over• C. Paul Burtner, Jr., who is serving at a seas in March and part of his address is APO bomber group headquarters in England, was 558, c{o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. promoted to the rank of captain on February Lt. John W. Ell, who was trained with the 13. parachute infantry in Georgia, arrived in Eng• 1942 land in February. J. Franklin Gayman of Thompsontown, Pa., Lt. Robert Laughton is executive officer graduated on .April 12 from .the Naval Air on a destroyer escort in the South Paci fie. Training Center, Corpus Christi, Tex., and Mr. and Mrs. Robert l. Gill, of Altoona, was commissioned an ensign in the U. S. have announced the engagement of their Naval Reserve. daughter, Miss Winifred Florence Gill to Cpl. William M. Remphrey is serving with lieut. Donald M. Geesey, Jr., U.S.A. Miss an Army Air Base squadron, and may be (;ill is a senior at the CoJlege of William and addressed APO 986, Postmaster, Seattle, Mary. Washington. Lt. Edwin C. Marotte is now on duty some• lieut. James D. Flower is serving with an where in New Guinea. anti-aircraft unit on an island in the South Pvt. Muriel Wood Hiller is a WAC. Her Pacific after completing a tour of duty in the address is A-221525, Post Office Box 1663, Fiji Islands. . . Sante Fe, New Mexico. Lt. Richard McCool is a radar officer with Lt. (j.g.) Milton l. Silver spent almost a the 89th Troop Carrier Group at Bergstrom year on a submarine operating from an Eng• Army Air Field, Austin, Tex. l; sh base before being sent into the Pacific. E. Roger Jackson has been promoted to He was married July 31, 1943, at Clayton, the rank of Staff Sergeant. With Mrs. Jackson N. ]., to Miss Barbara M. Hall of Clayton. he is living on Lincoln Avenue in Baldwin Sh- attended Wilson CoJlege. Manor, Aberdeen, Md. TI 5 C. Blair Kerchner is with an ordnance Elizabeth Parkinson was married to James company operating in the Pacific. Part of his W. Hoffman of Harrisburg on April 2 in the address is: APO 503, c/o Postmaster, San Second Presbyterian Church of Carlisle. The Francisco. bride plans to continue to teach at Womels• 1941 dorf High School until May. Mr. Hoffman, Lt. Washmgton l. Marucci, of the Army who attended Dickinson for two years, grad- 34 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS uated from the Pennsylvania State College Smith, '43, were married on March 11 at last February with Phi Beta Kappa honors. Plainfield, N. J. He is employed in the post office in Harris• Cpl. George B. Neuber 3rd is serving with burg. Mrs. William W_ Spiegelhalder was an anti-aircraft unit in New Guinea. His one of the bridesmaids. brother, Sgt. Robert W. Neuber is in Hawaii. Jack Neiman has been promoted to the After being rejected for enlistment in the rank of lieutenant junior grade in the U. S. Army and Navy, J. Irving Stineman was drafted under selective service and assigned Naval Reserves. 1943 to the infantry. His address is Co. "A", 67th Bn., 4th Plat., Camp Wolters, Texas. Willim Paterson has received his commis• Announcement has been made of the en• sion in the air corps and is now stationed at gagement of Lt. George F. ~arbary of the Colorado Springs. Marine Corps to Miss Euma Wilbert, daughter Ensign Perrin C. Hamilton is serving with of Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Wilbert of lingles• the Amphibious Forces on a LCI boat in the town Road, Harrisburg. Miss Wilbert is a Atlantic. graduate of Susquehanna Township High Lt. John T. Pfeiffer, III, is serving with a School and Central Pennsylvania Business fighter control squadron of the 14th Air Force College, and is a secretary in the office of somewhere in China. two Dickinson lawyers. Lt. Guy B. Mayo, U. S. Marine Corps, was Joseph Newton Moyer, pilot in the Army married on February 16 to Lorena Mary Air Corps, of Mechanicsburg, has been pro• legacy, daughter of Mrs. William legacy, moted to the rank of captain. Cambridge, Mass. His address is now 298 Announcement has been made of the Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. marriage of Lt. John Stanley Hollinger of Norma Gardner has been sworn into the Mechanicsburg to Betty Baker, yeoman second WAVES as an apprentice seaman and reports class, U. S. Navy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. to Hunter College, New York City, on July Ralph E. Baker of Camp Hill on last 13. She is teaching school at the present Christmas Day, in Lakeland, Fla. Lt. Hol• time. linger is now overseas. J. Fred Dittmann visited Carlisle early in John Pearson Miller graduated at Moore April on his way from Yale University where field Texas on April 15 when he received he had just been commissioned a second lieu• his commission as a second lieutenant in the tenant in the administrative branch of the Air Army and was awarded his wings as a pilot. Corps, on his way to spend a leave at his After a short leave, he returned to that Field home in Kansas. for further training. In April his engage• Val D. Sheafer, Jr., of Carlisle, graduated ment was announced to Miss Emma Jane at the West Texas Bombardier Quadrangle Burkholder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred on April 8 when he received his commission Burkholder of Carlisle. Miss Burkholder is as a second lieutenant. He was in Carlisle secretary in the office of the college Treasurer. on May 1 on his way to Lincoln, Nebraska, for assignment. 1945 Pvt. James S. Steele is serving with Head• Hobart C. Jeter is now an Aviation Cadet quarters Detachment, 365 Medical Battalion, in the United States Naval Air Corps. APO 200, Camp Shelby, Miss. Midshipman Zane G. Kaufman is attending ]. Gordon Hanna finished his pilot train• Columbia University, U.S.N.R. Midshipman ing and received his wings and commission School. on March 12. He is now stationed at S. 0. Mildred June Manning, of Washington, D. Q., 1. A. A. F., Liberal, Kansas, training to C., was married on March 25 in Milwaukee fly B-24 liberators. to Harry J. Knouff, U.S.N.R. 1944 Sgt. Robert W. Neuber has changed his Lt. Harry C. Stonesifer, who is now serving station from Hawaii to the Marshall Islands. with an engineers battalion in the European His APO number is changed to 241, c/o theater, was married in March to Miss Ferne Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif. Arentz in Hanover, Pa. Pfc. Robert G. Crist, who graduated in German Area and language under the Uni• Pvt. William Gale who was an ASTP versity of Pennsylvania ASTP program on student at Hope College, Holland, Mich. was April 28, was assigned to 106th Infantry, assigned to an M. P. outfit at Camp McCoy, Camp Atterbury, Indiana. Wisconsin. Pfc. Stanley Adler graduated from Kenyon Ted C. Strouse has received his commission College under the ASTP French program and and his new address is: Bomb. Class 44-7, was assigned to Co. D, ST Bn., CSC RTC, R. A. A. F., Rosewell, New Mexico. Camp Crowder, Missouri. Dorothy Mae Lloyd and Ensign Earle W. Sgt. David T. Berner has arrived on an THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 35 island in the southwest Pacific and writes he K. Bowman of Camp Hill, to Lt. John D. has "eaten bananas off the jungle floor and Hopper, was made on May 2. Lt. Hopper is seen the fuzzy-wuzzies." now a pilot instructor at Napier Field, Dothan, Ala. 1946 Arthur L. Tait is a pharmacist's mate, third Blake Lee Spahr of Carlisle received his class, at the U. S. Naval Training Station, commission as a second lieutenant and his Weeksville, Elizabeth City, N. C. silver wings on April 1, following his gradua• Pvt. John ]. Thomas, who was in basic tion at the San Marcos Navigation School, engineering under the ASTP program at the Texas. University of Pennsylvania, is now with Co. Paul Rinaldi is now a sergeant in Company C, 320 Engr. Bn., 95th Infantry, Indiantown C, 37th R. T. C., Camp Croft, S. C. Gap, Pa. Upon the termination of the ASTP pro• gram, Paul G. Bucher, who was in his second Pvt. Robert Slutzker is assistant to the s.rnester at the University of Kansas, was oxygen officer at 26th Hq. and Hq. Sqn., assigned to an infantry outfit at Camp Gruber, BAAF, Blytheville, Arkansas. Oklahoma. Cpl. George Richards recently sailed over• Announcement of the engagement of Miss seas with an air corps ground crew and is Anne Bowman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ]. somewhere in the European theater.

OBITUARY

1877-Daniel Brodhead Heiner, former Congressman, United States attorney, and internal revenue collector, died at his home in Kittanning, Pa., on February 14. He was eighty-nine years of age. . His wife, Mrs. Belle T. Acheson Heiner, preceded her husband in death by just four days. The couple had been married more than fifty-seven years. . Born in Kittanning, Pa., December 30, 1854, Mr. Heiner, entered the College m 1873 and became a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He withdrew from the College in 1875 and received the A.B. degree from Allegheny College in 1879. He was district attorney of Armstrong County, Pa., from 1886 to 1892, and in that year was elected a member of Congress. A~ the end of his congressional term in 1897 he was appointed United States district attorney by President Mc• Kinley and served through 1902, when he began the first of two 12-year periods as internal revenue collector. He held that position under Presidents McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. He was a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Kittanning. He is survived by one son, William Graham Heiner, an attorney in Pittsburgh, Pa., and by two grandsons.

1879-Dr. Harold H. Longsdorf, one of the last of the old fashioned country doctors, died in his home in Centerville, Pa., on April 28 in his 86th year. He suffered a paralytic stroke a few days before his death which ended a practice of 62 years. His father, Dr. William H. Longsdorf, was a member of the class of 1856 and like his father he maintained a life-long interest in the college. He was a life member of the General Alumni Association. He forsook his practice at Commence• ment time and spent the days on the campus. Then he .told many the story of how he and his father were at Gettysburg and heard President Lincoln's address there. His father was then on crutches as a result of injuries sustained while serving with the Union forces. President Lincoln saw the wounded veteran and summoned him and his son to the speaker's platform. 36 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

Dr. Longsdorf was active in educational circles. A former school director, he early wrote a book "Consolidation of Rural Public Schools", which was a pioneer work and he also championed the cause of free text books. He has been called "the father of the consolidated school system in Pennsylvania." While president of the Cumberland County School Directors Association he was commissioned by the State in 1900 to make a .study of school consolidation and pupil transportation. The State later published his 127-pag~ report under the title "The Consolidation of Country Schools and Transportation of Scholars by Use of Vans." A year following his birth in Bellevue, Nebraska on July 28, 1858, his parents returned to make their home in Centerville and he lived in that house until his death. He prepared for college at the Newville Academy, an~ received his A.B. degree in 1879 and an A.M. in 1882, the year he graduated with an M.D. degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore. At Dickinson he became a member of Chi Phi Fraternity. He was an elder of the United Presbyterian Church, Newville, and a director of the Farmers Trust Company, Carlisle. He was a member of the Sons of Veterans, the Pennsylvania Medical Society, the American Academy of Medicine, the American Medical Association and the Tri-County Medical Society. He was author of "Medi• cal Legislation." He is survived by his widow, the former A. Eleanor Ernst, of Walnut Bottom, whom he married in 1885, their daughter, Mrs. John T. Mohler, of Camp Hill, Pa., and a son, Dr. Harold E. Longsdorf, of Mt. Holly, N. J. He is also survived by three sisters, Dr. Zatae L. Straw, '87; Dr. Jessica D. Bozarth, '91, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Ernest Sipple, '94, of Wallingsford. Following services in the Centerville Lutheran Church, burial was made in Memorial Park, Centerville,

1889-Col. Hugh Harry Pitcairn died at his home in Harrisburg, Pa., on February 21. He was seventy-seven years old last November 18, and had been confined to the Harrisburg hospital for several months in the Fall. Born in Harrisburg, he was the son of Dr. Hugh Pitcairn and Fannie Sherfay Pitcairn. He attended the College for two years, where he became a member of Theta: Delta Chi; and later he attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N. Y. for two and a half years. He was a civil engineer and worked in the West Indies, the Philippines, North Borneo, France, Argentine and Brazil. . He entered the Army as a private in the Spanish-American War, was commis• sioned a lieutenant, and in the World Wa·r became a major. In 1931 he was made a lieutenant colonel in the auxiliary reserve, and a few years ago he was retired as a full colonel. He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers; American Society of Military Engineers, Tropical Engineers, Army and Navy Club; Military Order of the World War and American Legion. Surviving are three brothers, Norman B., of St. Louis, president of the Wabash Railroad; Frank, of Philadelphia, who is associated with the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, and Roy, of California, and a sister, Mrs. David Waddell Frackelton, of Cleveland, the former Miss Nancy Pitcairn. Following funeral services, burial was made in Altoona.

1889-The Rev. Morris E. Swartz, DD., prominent in the Central Pennsylvania Methodist Conference for many years, former editor of the Washington Christian THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 37

Advocate and former member of the Alumni Council, died on April 9 in York, Pa., following a lingering illness. He had lived in York since his retirement in 1939. From his undergraduate days, Dr. Swartz was active in Dickinson affairs. He was the leader for the Class of 1889 in promoting reunions, served as Alumni Fund agent and was an active worker in his term on the Alumni Council. Twice during his ministry he was superintendent of the Harrisburg District of the Central Pennsylvania Conference and once of the Sunbury district. He was president of the Board of Trustees of the Methodist Home for Children at Shire• manstown, Pa. Born in Pine Grove Mills, Centre County, Pa. on February 7, 1868, he was the son of George Musser and Mary Keen Swartz. He attended the Dickinson Prepara• tory School graduating there in 1885. He received his Ph.B. degree upon his graduation from the college in 1889 and an A.M. in 1892 when he graduated from Drew Theological Seminary with the B.D. degree. The college conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity upon him in 1910. He served numerous central Pennsylvania pastorates, including six years at Shippensburg. From 1932 until his retirement in 1939 he was pastor of the New• berry Church in Williamsport. He was Washington area secretary for the centenary movement and Pennsylvania district secretary in the inter-church world movement. He was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity. He is survived by his widow, the former Miss Carrie Bashore, of West Fair• view; two sons, Morris E. Swartz, [r., '23, of Harrisburg and Robert B. Swartz, of York; a brother, E. F. Swartz, Punxsutawney, and a sister, Mrs. Anna Caswell, Coatesville.

1896-The Rev. Elmer Etherington Jones, retired Methodist minister, died from pneumonia, after a short illness, on March 16, at his home in Perry, N. Y. Born in Philadelphia on October 11, 1871, he was the son of Daniel A. Jones and Virginia Etherington Jones. He attended Dickinson Preparatory School and received his A.B. degree from the College in 1896 and an A.M. in 1900. He was graduated that year from Drew Theological Seminary with the B.D. degree. At Dickinson he became a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and was a member of the Union Philosophical Society. While a student at Drew he held a pastorate at Lawrenceville, Pa., and upon his graduation from the Seminary became pastor at Naples, N. Y. He served a number of pastorates in northern New York until his retirement in 1942, when he took up his residence at Perry, where he was pastor from 1921 to 1924. He is survived by his widow, the former Nina M. Matson of Wellsboro, Pa., and three sons, all in the armed services: First Lieut. Stuart M. Jones, Seaman 2/c; Merle A. Jones, and Capt. Lyle M. Jones. Interment was made in Glenwood Cemetery, Perry, N. Y.

1906---Robert Benneville Buoy, hardware merchant and president of the John Y. Buoy Co. since 1921, died of miocarditis after a two week's illness at his home in Milton, Pa. on April 13. Born at Williamsport, Pa., on December 15, 1883, he was the son of John Y. and Mary Haag Buoy. He graduated from Milton High School and attended Buck• nell University before entering the college, where he became a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. He was a trnstee and former treasurer of the First Methodist Church of Milton, of which he was a member. He was active in the Milton Chamber of Commerce 38 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS and was a director of the First National Bank of Milton. He was a charter member of the Rotary Club there and chairman of that organization's crippled children committee. He was a 32nd degree Mason. He is survived by his wife, the former Mary E. Kreitzer, whom he married at Milton on September 19, 1922, and a daughter, Margaret Kreitzer Buoy, now a student at Gettysburg CoolJege. He is also survived by a sister, Miss Margaret E. Buoy, of Milton, and two brothers, John H. Buoy, also of Milton and Charles W. Buoy, of Cleveland. The hardware concern of John Y. Buoy Co. in which he served as president since 1921 was established 92 years ago in 1852 by his grandfather. The Rev. Charles A. L. Bickell, assisted by the Rev. Samuel W. Strain, '24, officiated at the funeral services. Interment was made in the Milton Cemetery.

1908-William Henry Shipe died in Washington, D. C., on March 17, 1944, of a cerebral hemorrhage. Born. on April 22, 1883, at Treverton, Pa., he was the son of M. W. and Christie Haupt Shipe. He prepared for college at the Sunbury High School, and received his A.B. degree in June, 1908. At Dickinson he became a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. During the summer of 1939 he attended the summer session at Bucknell University. Upon his graduation from the ColJege, he became a teacher in the Middle Township High School at Cape May Court House, N. J., and was principal of that school from 1920 until 1924. From 1924 to 1939, he engaged in fanning on R. D. 6, Danville, Pa., and then in 1939, returned to the Middle Township High School as a teacher, continuing there until 1941. He then secured a federal position in the House Office Building where he worked until his death. He was married to Lillie M. Hauck on June 28, 1911, at Sunbury, Pa. His widow is employed in the Government Printing Office in Washington where she lives with her son, Phil W. Shipe and twin daughters, Dora H. Shipe and Christie E. Shipe, who are now in the ninth grade of school. An older son, Ward M. Shipe, resides in Danville, Pa., where he is employed in the post office. Following funeral services, internment was made in the Odd Fellows Cemetery, Danville, Pa.

1909-Miss Carrie Butz, retired teacher and one of the most prominent and beloved residents of SchuylkilJ Haven, Pa., died on March 26 in a New York hospital, where she had gone for treatment. Her death occurred five weeks after the death of her sister, Miss Eva Butz. Born in SchuylkilJ Haven, she was the daughter of the late [onathan and Hannah E. Krebs Butz. She graduated from the high school there and after attend• ing the Kutztown State Teachers College entered Dickinson College. She received her A.B. degree in 1909 when she was graduated second in her class and became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She was also awarded a scholarship to the University of Berlin and she studied in Germany for a year, returning to teach in the Coates• ville High School. She later received her master's degree at Columbia University. For 16 years she taught at the Schuylkill Haven High School and later at the high school in Trenton, N. J. She retired from teaching in 1936. Miss Butz was active in civic and church affairs. She was an organizer and charter member of the Woman's Missionary Society of the First Reformed Church of Schuylkill Haven, of which she was a member and active in the affairs of the Woman's Guild of that church. She was president of the Schuylkill Haven Library THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 39

Association and a member of the board of the Woman's Club there. She was also active in the affairs of the W.C.T.U. She is survived by a brother, George W. Butz, of Schuylkill Haven and two nephews. Following funeral services from the Butz home, burial was made in the Union Cemetery.

1914-Walter Matson Herr was seized with a heart attack at his home in Mifflinburg, Pa., on the evening of February 14 and died within an hour. He suffered a coronary occlusion. Born on December 21, 1890, at Salona, Pa., he was the son of Wesley Uriah Herr and Margaret Walter Herr. He prepared for college at the Central State Normal School. He received his Ph.B. degree from the College upon his gradua• tion in 1914. During World War I he was a private in the Army, serving with a headquarters company at Camp Hancock. Following his return from service he became an insur• ance agent and for some years he was a claim adjuster for Maryland Casualty Com• pany and the proprietor of the General Insurance Agency. He was also a justice of the peace. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, a Mason, a member of P. 0. S. of A., and a past commander of the American Legion. He is survived by his widow, the former Josephine Sarah Herr, whom he married at Montandon on December 25, 1917. They had no children. Following funeral services, burial was made in the cemetery at Lewisburg, Pa.

1919-Dr. John A. Strausbaugh, Associate Professor of Romance Languages in Emory University, died on June 19, 1943, of .cerebral hemorrhage, and was buried in York Road Cemetery near Hanover, Pa., it has just been learned. Born on August 16, 1897, he was the son of Anthony and Sevilla Becker Strausbaugh. He prepared for college at Glenville High School. Upon his gradua• tion from the College in 1919, he became pr inci pal of the Richmondville, N. Y., High School, and after a year there, became Instructor in Spanish and Italian at the University of Maine, continuing until 1933 when he went to Emory University as Instructor in Romance Languages. He was named Assistant Professor in 1927 and Associate Professor in 193 5 which he held until the time of his death. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1933. Since 1932 he had been Secretary of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. He was a member of the Modem Language Association of America, American Association of Teachers of Spanish, Mediaeval Society of America, Facsimile Texts Society, and the American Association of University Professors. The author of various minor publications, he was also the author of "The Use of Auer a and Auer de as Auxiliary Verbs in Old Spain from the Earliest Texts to the End of the Thirteenth Century." He is survived by his widow, the former Helen McGhee, whom he married in Decatur, Ga. on October 9, 1926, and a daughter, Mary Helen, born June 2, 1930. u 40 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

NECROLOGY

Mrs. Ovando B. Super, widow of Professor Super, died on April 1 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. A. Ross, the former Emma Super, in Bozeman, Montana. She was in her 92nd year and had enjoyed life thoroughly in spite of blindness for the past ten years. She had been in failing health for some time prior to her death. Prof. Super was a member of the faculty from 1884 until his retirement in 1913. During their years in Carlisle, he and Mrs. Super were active in affairs of the town and college. Mrs. Super was an organizer and first president of the Carlisle Fortnightly Club, and was elected honorary president some years ago. Besides Mrs. Ross, she is survived by two other daughters, Mrs. Gertrude 1. Curtis, '02, of Los Angeles and Mrs, Edith M. 'Anderson, of Long Beach, California. One grandson, Cpl. David B. Anderson, is serving with the AAF overseas, and a granddaughter, Olive Ross, lives in Hanford, Washington.

James Ramsey Loy, father of Janet E. Loy, '23, New York City, and Mary Louise Loy, '31, Carlisle, a retired rug manufacturer and member of an early Perry County family, died on April 7 in his Carlisle home. He is also survived by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Kutz Loy, three sons, Linn N., Carlisle; J. McNeal, Ardmore and Paul B., Middletown, N. Y. and a sister, Mrs. J. R. Wilson, Landisburg.

Judge Benjamin Francis Madore, of Bedford County, Pa., father of Robert Madore, '24, and Elizabeth Madore, '26, died on March 18 after a long illness at his home in Bedford. His widow also survives. When his term on the bench ended in 1932 he returned to the practice of law with his son, Robert. For 40 years he was a member of the official board of the Methodist Church. He was long active in Republican politics, as well as in banking, farming, fraternal and civic circles.

Mrs. Mary Kutz Stuart, mother of three Dickinsonians, wife of R. Bruce Stuart, died on February 20 at her home in West Pennsboro Township following a lengthy illness. She was the mother of four children: J. William Stuart of Leonia, N. J., Captain Harvey M. Stuart, now overseas, and Mrs. Lewis D. Einstein of Narberth, who are Dickinsonians. Another son, Robert B. Stuart of Buffalo, N. Y., graduated from the Pennsylvania State College.

Mrs. Sallie Thomas ("Baby") Boswell, housemaid at the Phi Kappa Psi Fra• ternity house for 35 years died in her Carlisle home at the age of 68 years on April 27. A devoted Phi Psi, Sallie was buried wearing one of her most prized posses• sions-an engraved wrist watch bearing the Phi Psi crest which was presented to her by the undergraduate chapter when the house was closed for the duration about a year ago. Mrs. Boswell, a native of Reading, was a member of the Bethel A. M. E. Zion Church and Sunday School. She is survived by her husband, a son, Lawrence 1., of Darby, two daughters, Mrs. Carrie Thompson, Carlisle; Mrs. Beall Scott, of Philadelphia; six grandchildren and a brother, Morris Thomas, of Carlisle. DIRECTORY OF ALUMNI CLUBS

Dickinson Club of Altoona Dickinson Club of Ohio Park H. Loose. '27 Prestderrt W. Miller Cook, '19 President Margaret N. Horner. '30 Vice-President Blake Womer, '19 ...... •... Vice-President Rev. G. H. Ketterer, D. D., '08, Secretary Mrs. Henry W. Lindal, Jr., '35 Holltdaysburg, Pa. Secretary-Treasurer John M. Klepser, '22 Treasurer 2363 Atkins Ave., Cleveland, O. Dickinson Club of Atlantic City Dickinson Club of Philadelphia Marjorie L. Mcintire, '10 President Rev. Alex K. Smith, D.D., '25 ... President Lloyd E. Spangler, '22 Vlce-Presldent Murray H. Spahr. '12 Vice-iPresident Mabel E. Kirk, '05 ... Secretary-Treasurer Mrs. Margaret Day Jones, '15, 4301 Atlantic Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. Vice-President Dr. William C. Sampson, '02 .. Secy.-Treas. Dickinson Club of Baltimore Upper Darby, Pa. Dr. M. G. Porter, '84 . . .President Clarence M. Shepherd, '10 .. Vice-President Dickinson Club of Pittsburgh Irene G. Yaeger, '42 .. Treasurer Nicholas Unkovic, '32L President C. Wesley Orem, '35 .Secretary Mrs. R. C. McElfish, '14 Vlce-Presldent 4•09 Priscilla Lane, Colonial Village, Thomas E. Whitten, '26L, Secreta.ry-Treas. Pikesville, Md. 818 Frick Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Dickinson Club of Boston Dickinson Club of Reading-Berks Howard W. Selby. '13 President Robert H. Stewart, '27 President A. Norman Needy, '16, Secretary-Treasurer Walter A. Schlegel, '27 Vice-President 236 B~llevue St., West Newton, Mass. Edna M. L. Handwork, '12 .. Secy.-Treas. Birdsboro, Pa. Dickinson Club of California Robert Hays Smith, '98L President Dickinson Club of Southern New Jersey Samuel H. Beetem, '92 Vice-President Evan D. Pearson, '38 ...... •..•.. President Joseph z. Hertzler, '13, Secretary-Treasurer Leighton J. Heller, '23, '25L, Vice-President 1865 Sacramento St., San Francisco, Cal. Elizabeth Shuck, '37, Secretary-Treasurer 177 Johnson St., Salem, N. J. Dickinson Club of Delaware W. Reese H'itchens, '28 ... President Dickinson Club of Central New Jersey Leonard G. Hagner. '15 .. Vlce..(J?resident John H. Platt, '25 President Dr. John Shilling, '08 Vice-President Royce V. Haines. '30 Vice-President W. Fred Burton, '17 Vice-President Mary T. BurttscheH, '39 .. Vice-President I·Jy M. Hudson. '23 . _ .. _ _ .1Secretary Douglas B. Wicoff, '35L, Secretary-Treas. Wyoming, Delaware Ediward C. First. Jr., '35 ... __ .Treasurer Broad Street Bank Bldg., Trenton, N. J. Dickinson Club of Harrisburg Dickinson Club of Washington Carl B. Stoner, '23 President Lt. Col. Thomas J. Fra!ley, '19L.. President Rev. Spencer B. Smith, '34.. Vice-President Charles F. Kramer, Jr., '11.. Vice-President Mrs. L·. A. Burkholder, '22 .. Vice-President Maude E. Wilson, '14 SeoretJ11>ry Ralph E. Wallis, '26 .. Secretary-Treasurer 1789 Lanier Place. Washington, D. C. 1021 Girarq St., Harrisburg, Pa. Paul A. Mangan, '34 Treaaurer Dickinson Club of Michigan Dickinson Club of West Branch Valley Roscoe 0. Bon!steel, '12 President J. Milton Skeath, '21 ...... •.. President Ellsworth H. Mish, '09 Vlce-Pre.sldent Charles S. Williams, '26, '28L Wendell J. LaCoe, '26, Secretary-Treasurer Vice-President 511 Pauline Blvd., Ann Arbor, Mich. Mrs. Agnes Wlllard, '31, Secretary-Treasurer Dickinson Club of New York 234 S. Main St., Jersey Shore, Pa. Rev. John Wesley Lord, '27 ..... President Dickinson Club of York Thomas S. Fagan, '19 Vice-President Mervin G. Eppley, '17 Secretary-Treasurer Earl M. Schroeder, '26 President Dorothy M. Badders, '32 .. Vice-President 270 Broadway, New York City J. Richard Budding, '32, '36L, Secretary-Treasurer Dickinson Alumni Association of 19 East Marlrnt St.. York, Pa. Northeastern Pennsylvania .Judge John S. Fine, '14L President New York Alumnae Club Richard L. Bigelow. '08L .. Vice-President Harry A. Kolb. '14L Vice-President Linette E. Lee, '09 President John L. Mangan, '30 Treasurer Ann.a M. Mohler, '17 Vice-President Hopkin T. Rowlands, '31L Secretary Mrs. E. S. Jenkins, '10., Secretary-Tr·easurer 930 Miners National Bank Bldg., Wl Ikes• Gordon Road, Essex Fels, N. J. Barre, Pa. Philadelphia Alumnae Club Dicldnson Club of Northern xew .Jersev Grace Filler, '10 ...... •. President Rev. E. F. Hallock, '30 .. President Mrs. R. L. Sharp, '24 Vice-President John P. Milligan, '26 Vice-President Jane D. Shenton. '11, Secretary-Treasurer Rov D. Tolliver. '31 .. Secretarv-Treasurer SH E. Woodlawn Ave .. Germantown. 425 Holrnes se., Boonton, N." J Phlla.delphla, Pa. 171st Commencement Program

Saturday, May 27, 1944 ALUMNI DAY 10:30 A. M.-Annual Meeting of Phi Beta Kappa. Memorial Hall 11 :00 A. M.-Alumni Council Meeting in West College. Followed by the Annual Meeting of the General Alumni Association 12 :00 M.-Alumni Luncheon in Old Gymnasium. Admission by ticket, SOc. Reservations must be made in advance by writing to Gilbert Malcolm, Alumni Secretary 2 :00 P. M.-Passing of the Old Stone Steps Presentation of The 1902 Award Ivy Oration and Planting at Bosler Senior Induction at the Flag Pole

4:00 .P .. M. to -The President's Reception 5:30 P. M. 7: 30 P. M.-Meeting of the Board of Trustees Physics Lecture Room

Sunday, May 28, 1944 COMMENCEMENT DAY 10:15 A. M.-Academic Procession 10 :30 A. M.-Baccalaureate Services. Allison Methodist Church Sermon by the Rev. William H. Ford, D.D., '94 Member of SOth Reunion Class and Chaplain of the Methodist Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. 2:45 P. M.-Academic Procession 3: 00 P. M.-l 7lst Commencement Exercises. Bosler Hall Address by the Rev. Fred Pierce Corson, D.D., Litt.Di, LLD., on the tenth anniversary of his administration as president of Dickinson College Boyd Lee Spahr, LLD., president of the Board of Trustees, presiding