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Pa. •rGb-"1=============================~~,. ~ ~ ~be IDtcktnson a1umnus Published Quarterly for the Alumni of Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law Editor - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gilbert Malcolm, '15, '17L Associate Editors - Dean M. Hoffman, '02, Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., '35 ALUMNI COUNCIL Terms Expire in 1942 Terms Expire in 1943 Terms Expire in 1944 J. B. Kremer,'97 Wllllam A. Jordan, '97 Harry B. Stock, '91 J. Merrill Williams, '08 Wilbur V. Mallalieu, '99 Marjorie L. Mcintyre, '10 Karl E. Richards '10 George C. Hering, Jr., '17 Carl B. Shelley, '17 Earl S. Johnston, '13 Mrs. Margaret M. McE!flsh, C. Wendell Holmes, '21 Mrs. Anne B. Benneth um, '25 '14 Bernard J. Kotulak, Kenneth F. Tyson, Robert W. Crist. '23 Class of 1939 Class or 1940 J. Watson Pedlow, '29 Mar ktn R., Knight, Class of 1941 GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF OF DICKINSON COLLEGE DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW President George C. Hering, Jr. President .... Justice John w. Kephart Vlce-Rresldent Karl E. Richards First Vice-Pres Robert Hays Smith Secretary C. Wendell Holmes Sec'y .-Treas. Joseph P. McKeehan Treasurer Harry B. Stock TABLE OF CONTENTS Announce Inauguration of l 70th Anniversary Fund 3 Conduct Conference Endowment Campaign . 5 Seven Added to Teaching Staff . 7 Professor Norcross Dies Suddenly . l l Wilbur Harrington Norcross-Man of Spirit . 12 The President's Page · . 14 Professor Doney Dies in Ocean Tragedy . 15 Paul Doney · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · . - - . 16 Small Football Squad Faces Season . 19 Choose Officers at Annual Alumni Meeting . 21 Editorials · · · · · · · · · . 22 Dickinson's Contribution to the Nation . 24 Personals . · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · . 30 Obituary and Necrology · · · · · · · - · · · .. · . 38 Life Membership $40. May be pai~ in tw? installments of $20 each, six months apart or in $10 installments. Alumni dues $2.00 per year, including $1.00 for otte year's sub· scriptioti to the magazine. All communications should be addressed to The Dickinson Alttmnzt5, West College, Carlisle, Pa. "Entered as second-class matter May 23, 1923, at the post office at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879." ~~=;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS SEPTEMBER 1941 Trustees Announce Inauguration of 170th Anniversary Fund HE inauguration of the 170th Anni• T versary Expansion and Endowmenl Fund of Dickinson College was an• nounced by Boyd Lee Spahr, president of the Board of Trustees, at the Alumni Luncheon on June 7, when he stated that as of that date $202,873 had been sub• scribed by trustees, faculty and the college staff. This campaign is apart from the one to be conducted within the bounds of the Central Pennsylvania Conference by the Methodist Church for Dickinson College, Williamsport-Dickinson Semin• ary and the Wesley Foundation at State College. In outlining the needs and projects of the campaign, Mr. Spahr pointed to the need to guarantee the future of the college by raising sufficient funds to wipe BOYD LEE SPAHR out the present debt, materially increase President of Board of Trustees endowment for scholarships and admin• Anniversary Fund Chairman istrative requirements, and to provide for building renovations and additions to the physical plant. for rebuilding Bosler Hall, $300,000 for additional scholarship endowment In speaking of the building needs, Mr. and $750,000 additional endowment for Spahr stated that a new chapel and administration and maintenance require• student center should be erected in ments. Mooreland; that a new, modern chem• istry building should also be built there, Mr. Spahr told his hearers that the and a field house erected at Biddle Field. Trustees had been considering this pro• He said that the completion of im• ject for some time and that they be• provements to Old West, the remodel• lieved the future of the college would ling of East College, Conway Hall and depend on the success of the effort. He Metzger were needed. These changes he said that the college could continue on estimated would cost not less than its present basis but that the realization .$900,000. of the goal by 1943 was imperative if the college is to keep its place as one While no goal in dollars was set, his of the leading small colleges of the estimates totalled more than $2,000,000 nation. when he also listed $174,000 for debt retirement, which included sums spent In his address, Mr. Spahr paid high 4 'THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS l 70th ANNIVERSARY EXPANSION AND ENDOWMENT FUND By BOYD LEE SPAHR, EsQ., ·oo, Chairman It is twenty years since the College last conducted a general financial cam• p~1gn_. If i.t could then raise approximately one_ million dollars gross, as it did, it certainly can raise two and a quarter millions now. Compared to 1920 there are now at least twice as many living alumni; probably four times as many as in 1900. Add to these, friends of the College knowing its worth and the result is a substantial constituency which has the means to make the campaign a success, if each one does his share. Dickinson is one of the great small colleges of the country. It has proved its worth for almost a century and three quarters. It is better today than ever. Yet its endowment is Jess than the colleges with which it ranks, such as Bowdoin, Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan, Hamilton, Swarthmore and Haverford. It vitally needs more funds for general endowment and for scholarships. It needs a new chemistry building and an auditorium-student centre,-both to go on the Mooreland campL1s. It needs to complete the re-conditioning of other buildings. It needs greater security. If it be said that the world outlook is uncertain, that is all the more reason for_ making secure a great institution dedicated to the American way of living. If the times are troublous now, they are not, comparatively speaking, more so than in 1783 when Dickinson, Rush, Montgomery and Wilson de• termined to expand the grammar school of 1773 into a college. What they risked and did, we can do now . Dickinson is yo11r college. What yo11 are is largely due to it. Now is the t1me,-and the only time in the lives of many of us,-to repay what the college has done for us by loyal support to the full extent of our respective abilities. rorrmlment to the members of the given by them to the Alumni Fund in faculty and college staff who had al• 1941 be set aside for the Alumni Fund ready subscribed $41,657.66, represent• of 1942 and that the procedure be fol• ing a subscription from each of them lowed for each subsequent year covered of one-third of a year's salary. He de• by their l 70th Anniversary Fund pledge." clared that this was a challenge to the Literature outlining the needs and trustees, alumni and friends of the projects of the Anniversary Fund will college. be mailed to all alumni, and the canvas In acting on some of the details of for subscriptions will begin this fall. The the Anniversary Fund, the Trustees ap• subscription forms which have been pre• proved a recommendation made by Presi• pared call for payments over three tax dent Corson that the annual Alumni years in ten quarterly payments. Fund be continued and that "where Many alumni and friends will be alumni who have subscribed to the enlisted to assist in the campaign, which Alumni Fund in 1941 subscribe to the will have professional direction super• Anniversary Fund, that a portion of vising and assisting the efforts of volun• their subscription equal to the amount teer workers. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 5 Conduct Conf ere nee Endowment Campaign RELIMINARY work on a campaign Committee are Mr. John E. Person, P within the bounds of the Central President and General Manager of the Pennsylvania Conference of the Metho• Sun-Gazette Publishing Co., of Williams• dist Church to raise $250,000 for Dick• port, and Rev. J. Edgar Skillington, D.