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~ GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF OF DICKINSON COLLEGE DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW President Karl E. Richards President .... Justice John '.l. Kephart Vice-President Robert w. Crist First Vice-Pres Robert Hays Smith Secretary c. Wendell Holmes sec'y .-Treas. . Joseph P. McKeehan Treasurer Harry B. Stock
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Page Trustees Endorse Administration of President Corson 3 The President's Page 6 Plan Endowment as Memorial to Prof. Doney 7 Three Receive Dickinson Degrees at F. & M. 8 Dickinscnian Commands WAC Training School 9 36 Alumni Become Lifers Raising Total to 383 10 Air Pilot Missing in Flight from India to China . 12 Lt. Jerry Darr Disappears in Fight Over Bougainville 13 968 Stars in Dickinson's Service Flag 14 College and Law School. Graduate Becomes Judge 16 Editorial 18 Letters from Overseas 20 Personals 22 Obituary 32
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DECEMBER, 1943 Trustees Endorse Administration of President Corson
N A resolution endorsing his admin• . Action was taken by the Trustees to I istration and his service as presi• issue the mandamus to the President dent of the college, the Board of Trus• and faculty to confer the appropriate tees made a request of Dr. Fred P. Cor• baccalaureate degree upon any student son at the mid-winter meeting held at of t~e college who has completed the Union League, Philadelphia, on Decem• requirements for graduation. This war ber 4 that he deliver the address at measure provides for awarding degrees the 171st Commencement to mark the whenever a student becomes eligible for tenth year of his administration. The graduation without the necessity of hold• 17 lst Commencement will be held on ing a meeting of the Board to take the Sunday, May 28, 1944. needed action. In his report, President Corson stated The resolution also said "Be It that when the Fall Session opened on Further Resolved, That the Trus• October 4, the civilian enrollment was tees, in view of the approaching 216, composed of 87 men and 129 anniversary of his ten years of en• women. He also reported that 182 hours cumbency, place on record their ap• of classroom work are being offered this preciation of the loyalty of Presi• year in the Liberal Arts College. dent Corson to the College and of , the success of his administration, President Corson also reported to the especially in view of the financial Trustees that since the annual meeting situation of the country during the last May, three gifts had been added to last ten years, now further com• the permanent endowment of the Col• plicated by the war situation, to• lege: The Rebecca Gibbs Endowment gether with the confident hope of of $15,000; the Grace Harlan Sellers the Trustees that his administration Trust of $50,000 and the Haines Family will continue for years to come, to Trust of $10,000. which end the Board . pledges him "I want also" reads a part of Presi• its hearty and unanimous support." dent Corson's report "to call to the at• tention of the Trustees the additions The Trustees also directed the adop- which are being made to our Dickin• tion of a distinctive academic garb for soniana through the generous gifts of the president, which will be worn by President Boyd Lee Spahr. No month Dr. Corson for the first time at the passes without the gift of some collec• l 7lst Commencement. Many of the tor's piece from Mr. Spahr, and during colonial colleges, such as Harvard and the last year, these additions have been Yale, and many others, have adopted chiefly in the form of Buchanan and a distinctive official garb for the presi• John Dickinson letters. Our Dickin• dent of the institution, and Dickinson soniana is fast becoming a collection of will thus follow this custom. Years ago, the Trustees authorized the real historical interest." president of the college to wear the In the part of his report dealing with Doctor of Laws hood of the college. the 32d College Training Detachment, In addition a purple silk gown with called the War College, President Cor• purple velvet bars for the doctorate will son said in part "The College has con• be worn and over it the Doctor of Laws tracted to house, feed and teach this hood. group. Under the terms of _the contract, 4 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS
College Calendar Fall Session ends January 29, 1944 Convocation for granting degrees, Sunday, January 30, 1944 Winter Session begins Monday, January 31 James Henry Morgan Lectures, February 7 and 8 Reception for "A" Students, Feb• ruary 7 or 8 Spring Recess, April 6 at 8 A.M. to April 12 at 8 A.M. 171st Commencement, May 28 Summer Session, June 12 to Sept. 30, 1944
PRESIDENT FRED P. CORSON FROM A RECENT PHOTOGRAPH Class to Endow Scholarship Under the leadership of Ellsworth ~• no profit can be made by the College. Mish, of Detroit, Mich., a committee rs . . . The courses taught are physics, conducting a campaign for the estab• mathematics, English, history, geography, lishment of the Class of 1909 Scholar• medical aid, physical education and ship, which will be presented to the civilian air regulations. The College College at the thirty-fifth reunion of the has employed twenty-one additional in• class at the Commencement in May, structors, and needs eight more in order 1944. to be adequately staffed. With two ex• Through the years the Class of 1909 ceptions, every member of the regular has raised, to June 30, last, $661.23, which has been held in a fund by the College faculty is also giving some in• treasurer of the College. Under the struction in the War College. Wear leadership of Mr. Mish, members of. the and tear on buildings and equipment, class are being asked to make contribu• for which there is no adequate pro• tions to increase this fund to at least vision in the contract, is the danger point $1,000 and possibly to $1,500·, before from the standpoint of financial loss to May, 1944. The money will then be the College. General upkeep is being set aside in the permanent endowment maintained, but it is yet to be demon• fund of the College and the income will strated that there is adequate provision be used for scholarship purposes. for the restoration of buildings and equipment upon termination of the con• tract." Fills Many Pulpits President Spahr also made his report to the Trustees. lt dealt principally with On recent Sundays, President Corson the collection of various bequests which has preached in the chapel of the follow• ing institutions: The Pennsylvania State have been made to the College. Re• College, Hood College, Centenary Junior ports of other officers and routine mat• College, Lafayette College, The United ters completed the business of the meet• States Naval Academy, Mercersburg ing. Academy and Hershey School for Boys. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS s
Attends First Meeting A New Trustee
KARL E. RICHARDS
Judge Karl E. Richards, '11, who was elected a member of the Board of Trus• tees at the annual meeting in May, at• tended his :first meeting on December 4 JAMES T. BUCKLEY at the Union League, Philadelphia, when he was presented by President Boyd Lee Spahr. James T. Buckley was elected a mem• Judge Richards is Judge of the ber of the Board of Trustees at the Orphans Court of Dauphin ~ounty, annual meeting in May. He became a Pennsylvania, and lives in Ramsburg. laboratory assistant of the Philco Cor• He is President of the General Alumni poration in November 1912, and rose Association of Dickinson College. from that position through the ranks to assistant engineer, general purchasing agent, treasurer, president to his present Receives Important Appointment office as chairman of the executive com• , The Rev. James E. Skillington, D.I?., mittee. 05, became pastor of the First Method1~t Born in Philadelphia on October 13, Church at York, Pa. in October. This 1896, Mr. Buckley was educated in the church is one of the leading chLirches in schools there and also at Drexel Insti• the Central Pennsylvania Conference. tute and the Wharton School of the Uni• versity of Pennsylvania. He is active Dr. Skillington had been pastor at in the work of the Methodist Church Bloomsburg recently, and, earlier, pastor of Allison Memorial Church of Carlisle, and is the Lay Leader of Falls Methodist and at Renovo and Hazleton. Church, Philadelphia. During the period when there was a He married Miss Ethel Irene Davey, vacancy in the pastorate at York, Presi• of Philadelphia, on Jan. 30, 1918. . They dent Fred P. Corson filled the pulpit for have a son, James Russell Buckley and a number of Sundays. a daughter, Mrs. Ethel Buckley Petty. 6 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS
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IGNS for 1944 are definitely hopeful. or not sufficient stockpile of intellectual S The war effort moves to its culmi• competence and moral and social respon• nation with a good possibility that the sibility has been built up, chiefly from European phase of it may be successfully the source of liberal education, to do the terminated during the new year. Let us hope, pray and work for the defeat of job for democracy. Ja_pan, also, in 1944. May "Peace" con• Time, of course, will provide the ans• stitute "the glad tydings of great joy" wer, but training for the new army for for the coming year. the peace should not be delayed. To In my contacts with various groups begin with, we should ask ourselves a I .have discovered that the thoughts of few questions. Do we know the elements th1~ com1?g peace are beginning to give of the good life when we see them? senous-minded people real concern. The Have our interest in and service to mat• problems of peace will be much more ters beyond our own individual concerns di!ficult than the problems of war. Start entitled us to be called socially or com• with any 01'.e of. those possible problems, munity-minded? Looking back, what h~s and you will discover the truth of this been our score in choosing the true ba.s1c fact. issues when life has confronted us with A successful peace will, therefore, be alternatives? Have we developed a tech• a challenge to intelligent leadership. To nique, other than inertia, or prejudice, know what to do and to have the moral or personal gain, for choosing our leaders, a~d social sense to do it in cooperation political or otherwise? Are we prepa~e? :v1th others are the first necessities of a for an "essential service" in the rehabili• Just and lasting peace. tation of the world? These questions For such a time as this liberal educa• honestly faced may start many of us on tion in America, Great Britain and China a program of mental setting-up exercises especially, h~s been doing its work. w~ and refresher courses. ?av~ he_ld rt to be, and not without Getting a mind set for the new condi• justification, the necessary educational tions of peace will also be good prepar_a• process ~or the democratic way of life. tion. A sense of responsibility and a w'.ll Among its qualifications for such "a role to do one's part will help mightily m ?as. ~een it~ endeavor to acquaint the bearing "the heat and the burden" of 1:id1_v1.dual with the elements of the good these coming days life, its encouragement of sooal-minded• Our educational institutions must be ness; its provisi~n of the background and re-conditioned for capacity production at meth~ds of .testing whereby basic issues the first easing of the war pressure. It are discerned, an.cl the true distinguished would not be surprising if the enroll• from the false; its evaluation of hurrian ments of our colleges doubled for the n~ture for the und~rstanding of person• first two or three years following the war. ality _and t?e. choosing of good leaders; A million veterans, in addition to the and its training for vocational and pro• oncoming civilian group, will be enter• fessional competence. ing the colleges in order to complete Each year about 10% of America's their education. Every alumnus has a re• young people between the ages of 18 and sponsibility at this point to the leader• 24 have been i? colleges i:roviding this ship of his College. Without alumni type o~ education, A serious question help, the colleges cannot get ready. concernmg the peace centers in whether In a sense, liberal education is on the THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 7 spot. Will those trained by it respond? These are thoughts for all of us to Will they be competent and capable in ponder as we face the new year. -FREDPIERCE CORSON the face of the demands?
Plan Endowment Fund as Memorial to Prof. Doney human and modern. Moreover it serves p LANS are being formulated for the as a medium through which the author, creation of an endowment fund as who for many years had a responsibility a memorial to the late Professor Paul H. for choosing teachers, expresses his phil• Doney, who was Thomas Beaver Pro• osophy of teaching." fessor of English Literature at the time Dr. Carl G. Doney, author of the book of his death on August 9, 1941. about his son, until his retirement re• Two hundred copies of "The Broken cently was president of Willamette Uni• Circle," a biography of Paul Herbert versity. Doney, have been sent to the College as Contributions to the Paul H. Doney a gift by his father, Carl G. Doney, Endowment Fund, and orders for the - LL.D., who is the author of the book. book should be sent to Gilbert Malcolm, The Foreword is by President Fred P. Treas., Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. Corson, and the frontispiece is a photo• Prof. Horace E. Rogers is assisting in graph of the late Dr. Doney. the sale of the book and the establish• The publisher's price of the book is ment of the fund. $1.75. Anyone purchasing the book from the College may pay that or as much more as he or she chooses. The Says Children Carry Knives income from these sales of the book will A statement made by Helene Nelson, be used for the Paul H. Doney Endow• '15, New York social worker, that al• mer:t Fund, to which any other gifts so most every child in a part of Brooklyn designated will later be added. The carries a knife as a matter of course, income of the fund will be used for the appeared in the November 17 issue of purchase of books for the English Re• The New York Post. Miss Nelson is search Room, where Dr. Doney's portrait director of the Jacob A. Riis Settlement now hangs. House, which is located in the midst of In the Foreword, President Corson the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brook• says: " 'The Broken Circle' is the biog• lyn, where an intensive investigation was raphy of a man who left us too soon. made in November at the direction of It was inevitable that an effort should the Mayor of New York. This section be !Ilade to project his life through the was being called a "Little Harlem." telling of its story into the lives of those Miss Nelson reported that at one of who must carry on where he left off. the schools "a male teacher had to estab• Friends and students of Doctor Paul H. lish a rule that knives had to be checked Doney will love the book as they loved before the children began to play." the man." In seeking a solution for the condition In speaking of Dr. Doney's father, in the section where she works, Miss Dr. Corson writes: "The author, to Nelson has suggested the equipping of whom its preparation was a labor of vacant stores and other buildings as club lo:e, with an objectivity based upon rooms under capable leaders. She has wide experience with people, has made asked that several social centers in addi• the story of his son's life a study in tion to those now in existence be estab• ~ers~r;ality. It demonstrates the prac• lished. In this she is supported by ticability of the 'good, the beautiful and clergymen and other soda! workers, the true' in a life that was intensely 8 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Three Receive Dickinson Degrees At F. & M~
AFTER THEIR GRADUATION AT F. & M. PRESIDENT FRED P. CORSON, WINFIELD A. PETERSON, JR., ROBERT ALAN COHEN, PAUL H. NEFF, ANO REAR ADMIRAL RANDAL JACOBS, U.S.N.
HEN President Fred P. Corson Science, in ct/rsu, upon Winfield Augus• .W _conferred degrees upon three Dick• tine Peterson, Jr. These Dickinsonians, msomans at the Commencement of who had enlisted in the Navy Enlisted Franklin and Marshall College in Lan• caster on October 31, it probably marked Reserve while students of the College, the first time in American education that were transferred to Franklin and Mar• such an incident had occurred. shall College under the 'V-12 program In presenting Pr~sident Corson, Presi• of the Navy. At the Lancaster institu• dent Theodore Distler of F. and M. tion, they earned credits to complete the ?1ade. the statement that in all probabil• Dickinson requirements for graduatio.n ity this was the first time in the history and thus became eligible to receive their of higher education that degrees of one diplomas. institution were conferred by its Presi• Paul Neff is the son of the Rev. Dr. dent at the commencement of another and Mrs. J. Luther Neff, of Annapolis, institution upon students who had com• Md. His father graduated from the pleted their work in the other institution. College in 1915, and recently received President Corson conferred the degree the honorary degree of Doctor of Divin• of Bachelor of Philosophy, in cursu, ity. Paul was president of his fraternity, upon Paul Heston Neff and Robert Alan Alpha Chi Rho, when he was called to Cohen, and the degree of Bachelor of the service. He also was a member of THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 9
Omicron Delta Kappa and last year was Becomes Bank President basketball manager. J. Frank Briner, '07, was elected "Bob" Cohen's father is also a Dick• president of the Farmers Trust Company insonian, known to many as the baseball star "Socks" Cohen, though bearing the of Carlisle at a meeting of the board of name of Jack M. Cohen. Mr. and Mrs. directors early this month. He succeeds Cohen make their home in Philadelphia. the late Mervin L. Line, who died sud• Their son was also a member of the denly of a heart attack on November 27. bas.eball· squad and he was treasurer of Mr. Briner dropped out of college Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity when he en• thirty-seven years ago to accept a posi• tered the service. tion as clerk in the Farmers Trust Com• Winfield Peterson is the son of Dr. pany. He has been employed at the and Mrs. W. A. Peterson, of Brooklyn, bank continuously since then, and in N. Y. He spent his freshman year at March, 1932, was elected secretary and Bowdoin College, where he became a treasurer. His daughter, Kathleen Briner, member of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity. is now a student in the College.
Dickinsonian Commands WAC Training School LT. COL. ALTON V. ARNOLD, '28, Conservation Corps (which he declares is commanding officer of WAC is "an excellent organization, regardless Br~nch No. 7 at Alpine, Texas, a unit of your political affiliations"). He was which occupies the greater part of Sul then detailed to First Army Headquarters Ross State Teachers' College there. The at Governors Island, New York. In command which he has held since April, 1941 he was sent as a student to The 1943, includes both WAC and Army Adjutant General's School at Fort Wash• Officers, enlisted overhead personnel, ington, Md., and was retained there as and a Student Training Battalion. a member of the Staff and Faculty. The modus operandi is similar to the While there he received promotions to cadet system at Dickinson, except that the grades of major and lieutenant colo• Colonel Arnold has his own instructors, nel, respectively, and was detailed as who are commissioned officers in the a student to the Command and General Army. Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kan• Asked what he thinks of the WACS, sas. He graduated there in 1942 and Colone] Arnold wrote: "In my estima• went back to Fort Washington. tion, the Women's Army Corps is one When Army Administration Schools of the finest organizations I have ever for the instruction of WAC personnel encountered. In many respects they sur• were activated in April of 1943, he was pass soldiers, such as pride in their selected to command the school at Al• organ~zation, amenability to discipline, pine, Texas. Originally there were sev• attention to duty and their desire to en of these schools, but at the present learn, a?d to play a part in the defeat of time only four remain in operation. the Axis. I have only praise for them Colonel Arnold was born in Brill• and I echo the same sentiment of a lot hart, Pa. on February 16, 1906, the son of other officers-many of whom are of Harry Cleveland Arnold and Mrs. much older and more qualified to ex• Sadie Estelle Harbold Arnold. He press an opinion." graduated from the York High School Shortly after his graduation, "Bud" and entered Dickinson College, where Arnold was commissioned in the Army. he became a member of Theta Chi Fra• From 1935 to 1940 he was on con• ternity. He received the Ph.B. degree tinuous active duty 'with the Civilian upon his graduation in 1928. 10 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 36 Alumni Become Lifers Raising Total to 383 ERHAPS the largest gain in the~a George Shuman, Jr., ·~7'.Superi~te~~~ Pnumber of Life Members in the · "ent of Grounds and Buildmgs an. and General Alumni Association ever re- sistant Treasurer of the College, corded in the same period of time has Hyman Goldstein, '15, Carlisle attorney, been set since September when the last were the last subscribers in October. JSSue of THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS ap- Two Betas became Lifers on Novem• peared. After t_he mailing _of t~at num- ber 1. They were C. Lincoln Brown~ ber and to this date, thirty-six more ·30 operator of a 5 and 10 cent st?r alumni have become Lifers to raise the in 'Merchantville, N. J. and E?~1g~ total to. 383, and the prospect is that Samuel J. McCartney, '41, who visite there will soon be more than 400. the College that day while on leave tr?m One of the most striking happenings Solomons, Md. where he is rece1vmg was t~at after a letter from Jcdge Karl amphibious training. Judge Kar! Et E. RlChards, president of the General Richards '11 of Harrisburg, presiden Alumi;i Asso~iation, had gone to all of the Gener~! Alumni Association, be• alumni late rn November, seven $40 came a Lifer the same day. checks, the. fulld . cost of. life membership , C o 1 one 1 H enry E . Smith , '11 ' member. were receive in a smgle day, and that of the college faculty and instructor m two more $40 checks were received in the War College became a Lifer on the next two days. This is the first time N b 5 ' th· s h h d ovem er . IA as appenhe . S b Maude E. Wilson, '14, efficient sec- s soon as t e eptem er number of f h ff ki Club of Wash- the magazine reached him, Ensign Hor- ~etary 0 t e re mson an • 42 in- ace L. Jacobs, III, of the Class of 1943 mgton, D~ro~y. J. Bro~ermCollege 'and who is serving in the Navy at Ke~ structor o p ys1cs at t' e teach~r of West, Fla.,. sent in his $40 check. This ~~r~~~ i;· w~:[P~~~ste:s:H:igh School, was immediately followed by a subscrip- Wg Ch p t th names of tion f M J h E R; h d h est ester a., pu e rom rs. o n . re ar s, t e h d ·' th Lifer roll in Novem- former Romayne Mumper, • 40. Then t ree co-e s rn e 1 came one from another co-ed Mrs Alice ber, · when Abbott MacGregor, '40, the, tennis star, Th~ Betas L~~ng th~-i~ef~ ae::ITsle for an~ . $40 arrived the same day from two . ~~an:e t ers w I , Earl William M. Young ·21 attorne f an imtiation on November 27. f d Harrisburg Pa ' ' · y 0 M. Schroeder, '26, of the York Sa e ans There w'as a .lull until October 5 when Lock Co~pany, and_ Pfc. L~urenc~hn~ two members of the Class of 1922 be- Jacks~n, 43, . who is attending J new came Lifers. They are Emelyn M Trin Hopkins Medical School, are the h whose home is in Mt. Holly a~d wh~ Lifers. On th~t same d~y.' Dr. Ken:r~~ teaches in the high school at Camden J. Kennedy, 33, phy~1cran of J Y N. J. and Dr. Albert M. Grant physicia~ Shore, Pa., became a Lifer. of Hanover, Pa. Later in th; month a On the last day of November sub- subscription came from Charles F. Irw'in scriptions arrived from Dale H. Learn, Jr., '27, of Emaus, Pa. and on the sam~ '20, realtor of East Stroudsburg, Pa:, day his classmate, Wendell J. LaCoe of John M. Klepser, '22, attorney of Hol~t Ann Arbor, Mich., secretary-treasure; of daysburg and Altoona, Pa. and C. Wi - the Dick_inson Club of Michigan, be- liam Gilchrist, '37, attorney of Cumber• came a Lifer. Then a $40 check arrived land, Md. from Robert Paul Masland, '19, treas- December 6, 1943 proved the banner urer of C. H. Masland & Sons, Carlisle day when seven $40 checks arrived. They manufacturers. came from Elmer T. Grove, '03, Coca- THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 11
isle manufacturer and Dr. William D. Cola distributor of Elmira, N. Y.; Mrs. Angle, '30, physician of Williamsport, William R. Shearer 'OS wife of the Carlisle druggist; [ohn McConnell, Pa. W. Mr. Charles B. Kerchner sent in a '29~ me1:11ber of the faculty of New York subscription in the name of his son, Pfc. University; Edwin V. Kempfer, '34, of C. Blair Kerchner, '40, who is now serv• Melbourne, Fla.; Mrs. James D. Mack, ing in the Army overseas. the former Helen Standing, '37, of Edna Albert, 'OS, permanent secre• Bethlehem, Pa.; Mrs. William 0. Sweet, tary of her class and writer of Gardners, the former Marian Rickenbaugh, '39, Pa. was the last co-ed to subscribe, and of Attleboro, Mass. and Sidney Lee the 36th new subscription came from Kuensell, '43, of East Riverton, N. J. Lieutenant Samuel H. Spragins, Jr., '36, Within the next two days $40 checks who is stationed at Fort Ord, California. arrived from Roger K. Todd, '15, Carl- Name Liberty Ship For Distinguished Dickinsonian dreds of thousands of miles, setting up TH~ S. S. John F. Goucher, Liberty schools and missions in China, Japan, ship named for Dr. Goucher, '68, Korea and India. was launched on November 23d at the He is credited with lifting the debt Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard. The ship on the Martin Institute at Frankfort-on• was named for the Methodist leader and the- Main, Germany, and with directing educator who founded Goucher College. the organization of the Anglo-Japanese Ensign Janet Fisher Miller of the College in Tokyo. Waves,. oi:ly granddaughter of the teacher He journeyed by camel and horseback, a~d m1ss10nary who established Metho• by rail, boat and raft, often covering dist schools and missions throughout the 40,000 miles in a single trip. world, was the ship's sponsor. He maintained his activities at home Born in Waynesboro, Pa., on June 7, and abroad until 1921, when he was 1845, the son of a physician, Dr. stricken with the illness which caused Goucher received his A.B. from the Col• his death on July 19, 1922, at his home, lege in 1868 and an A.M. in 1872. He Alto Dale, in Pikesville. was awarded the honorary degree of His work brought him decorations Doctor of Divinity in 1885 and the de• from the governments of China and g~ee of Doctor of Laws in 1899. Upon Japan and world-wide recognition as an hrs graduation from the College he en• educator, writer and spiritual leader. tered the Baltimore Methodist Confer• ~nce and was pastor of various churches Has Poem in Post m that area until he retired in 1888 to A poem entitled "The Betrayers" by devote his energies to founding Woman's Robert D. Abrahams, '25L, was pub• College, which later became Goucher lished in the November 13 issue of The College. Saturday Evening Post. It laments the He was chairman of the committee manner in which the dishonest, arrogant which .incorporated the college, and a and ignorant public office-holder, law lead~r 11:1 obtaining financial support for maker and racket operator flaunts and the institution, It was not until 1890, betrays the ideals for which the nation's howe".e.r, that he accepted the presidency, sons have fought and died in its wars a position he held until the June com• through the years. mencement of 1910. Mr. Abrahams practices law in Phila• Leaders in the Methodist Church have delphia, where he is known also as the ~ailed Dr. Goucher as a foremost figure founder of a neighborhood law plan. in world Methodism. He traveled hun- 12 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Air Pilot Missing in Flight from India to China
IEUTENANT ROBERT A. WALSH, L '41, a. pilot with the U. S. Army Air Forces and one of three brothers in the armed services, has been reported "missing in action" during a flight from India to China since May 15. His brother, Staff Sergeant Armstrong Walsh is in Italy and another brother, Corporal Thad• deus is in the States. Born in Plains, Pa. on March 1, 1920, Lieutenant Walsh is the son of John J. Walsh and Jean Conniff Walsh, who now reside at 97 Maffett St., Plains, Pa. He graduated from the Plains High School in 1937 and spent his freshman year at Penn State. He entered Dickin• son as a sophomore in 1938 and with• dr~w in June .1939. He was a pledge of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. He later grad• uated from the University of Scranton. LT. ROBERT A. WALSH, '41 Enlisting in the service on December 22, 1941, Lieutenant Walsh received his cadet "All of us here have the utmost faith training at Maxwell Field, Montgomery, in your son's ability in any circumstances Ala., and the Southern Air School, Cam• and a constant and intense search has den, S. C. He took basic flying at Shaw been and is still being conducted in t~e F~eld, Sumter, S. C. and graduated as a expectation that he .lande~ saf~ly 111 pilot and was commissioned a lieutenant friendly territory and is making his way when he completed the advanced train• back to his organization. Many of your ing at Marianna Field, Fla. on December son's comrades are daily covering. the 13, 1942. After two months of flying area in which it is believed he disap• at Homestead, Fla., he left Miami via air peared and the search will never be transport on March 3, 1943 for active aband~ned as long as we have airplanes duty. He received many honors and was in the sky." often termed a "Hot Pilot." The commanding officer of his head• quarters wrote a letter to his father in Co-ed Edits Dickinsonian which he said in part: "Your son was last heard fr?m w?en his ship was con• Kathleen D. Briner, daughter of tacted ?Y radio during a flight from India J. Frank Briner, '10, was elected editor to China, At that time there was no of The Dickimonian in October and indication that he or his airplane was in thus holds a position which has been any trouble. I do not wish to hold out held by few of the co-eds. false hopes to you because I know you Because of wartime limitations the want the trl!th. But you should under• for~at of the Dickinsonian has been stand that the terrain over which he was changed as well as the frequency of issu~. flying is remote and sparsely populated. In addition to the regular prmted ~d1- Modern means of communication are vir• tions, mimeographed editions are being tually non-existent and overland travel sent to Dickinsonians in the armed is extremely difficult and slow. services. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 13 Lt. Jerry Darr Disappears in Fight Over Bougainville ISAPPEARING over Bougainville D when the Liberator bomber of which he was pilot was apparently dam• aged by hostile anti-aircraft fire, First Lieutenant Gerald L. Darr, '40, was re• ported missing in action on November 14, according to a message sent by the War Department to his wife, the former Marion H. Englander, '40, of Carlisle. In a letter which followed the first message, Mrs. Darr was told that Jerry's plane became separated from o'.her flanes in the squadron when it fie".' mto an area of turbulence" and that it was believed to have been damaged by hos• tile fire. This letter also. reported t~at the plane had failed to return to its base and that a search for it and the LT. GERALD L. DARR, '40 crew was made but nothing was found. From the messages she has received, H. Englander, of Carlisle, on August Mrs. Darr does not yet know whether 17, 1942. the planes were over the sea or land at Entering the service on January 1, the time of the action. 1942, Jerry reported at Maxwell Field. A.fter he graduated from the College, He then went to Orlando, Fla., Colum• officials of the Athletic Association took bus and Greenville, Miss., where he his track shoes and made them into a completed his training received his wings pair of gold shoes. They hang in the and was commissioned a second lieu• trophy case of the Alumni Gvmnasium. tenant on July 26, 1942. He then was They. were worn by Captain ferry Darr, given training as a co-pilot at Tucson, captain of the track team, who was also Ariz., and later at El Paso, Tex., Topeka co-captain of football and who in his and Salina, Kan. four years on the track was never de• He went overseas in January 1943 and feated in collegiate competition in the immediately entered combat duty in the low and high hurdles. He set two col• South Pacific Area. Shortly afterward, lege track records in 1938 when he ran he was made pilot of a B-24 Liberator the 120-yard high hurdles in 15.4 sec• bomber and was on many combat mis• onds and the 220 low hurdles in 25.2 sions. He was promoted to the rank seconds. of first lieutenant on September 21, Lieut. Darr was born in Burnside, Pa. 1943. on February 17, 1917, the son of Harry Ill luck trailed him in his Army ca- Wilson Darr, who died two years ago, reer. He suffered three attacks of ma• and Mrs. Emma Barber Darr, who lives laria, and several times was fl.own from Guadalcanal to Auckland, New Zealand at Burnside. He graduated from the for hospitalization. On one of these Cherry Tree High School, and entered trips, he had an attack of appendicitis the college in 1936, where he became and underwent an appendectomy. a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. While he never wrote the story to his He received the Ph.B degree in June wife, she believes that he had a crash 1940, upon his graduation from the col• lege. He married his classmate, Marion landing some time ago. 14 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS
"" ,,. ,,. 968 Stars In Dickinson's. Service Flag * * *
There are probably more than a thousand Dickinsonians now in the arT~i forces, though the total known at the alumni office is now 968. Seventy-two a tional names are published in this issue. . Cl s Promotions and other news of those in the service can be found 111 the i:e Personals. Thos~ in the service are urged to sen~ their addresses an:J t~ w~he telling of promot10ns or other experiences so that this news may be publish~ · d by Editor has no other way of securing this information, except that contame h service publicity offices, and this news is avidly read by Dickinsonians everyw ere, more especially by classmates in the service. . ice Frequently the discovery is made of a Dickinsonian who has been 111 the se:v e for a long time, though the alumni secretary has not known ab?ut it. Alufinih are urged to send in the names of any which have not been published and a . t os entering the service are urged to report this. The new names are as follows· 1927 Lt. Austin F. Brunner, M. C., Army Charles A. Rasner, Army Lt. (jg) Henry W. Monyer, U.S.N.R. Ph.M 1/c Stanley W. Thompson, U.S.N.R. 1928 1939 Lt. Col. Alton V. Arnold, Army Lt. (jg) Thomas W. Rau ff en b ar t , Navy Air 1929 Forces Walter E. Gunby, Army Pvt. Frederick S. Maize, Marine Corps 1930 Lt. (jg) Richard A. Miller, Navy Capt. ]. E. Biddle, M. C., Army Pvt. William Morgan, Army John l. Mangan, Engineer Corps Army Chaplain George E. Thomas, Navy C. M. Shields, U.S.N.R. 1940 1931 John R. Ulrich, Jr., Army Lt. (jg) William E. Cobb, U.S.N.R. 1941 T/4 George B. Northern, Army Lt. Bayard J. DeNoie, Army Dental Corps 1932 Pfc. Morris Foulk, Jr., Army A/S Albert ]. Miller, Navy Lt. Donald R. Morrison, Arm~ Lt. (jg) R. Donald Ness, U.S.N.R. Lt. Robert A. Walsh, Army Air Corps 1933 1942 Lt. Frederic W. Ness, U.S.N.R. Martha Bosler, Marine Corps Lt. Hugo E. Vivadelli, Army Pfc. Ezra J. Epstein, Army Pvt. Gerald L. Zarfos, Army Pfc. Robert L. Forman, Army 1934 Harrison C. Spencer, U.S.N.R. Lt. Frank P. line, Army Edward ]. Vanjura, Navy 1935 Anthony Wasilewski, Army William T. Gordon, Army 1943 Albert E. Smigel, Army 2d Lt. John Joseph Curran, .{i.rmy Ensign G. Bruce Wagner, Navy Lt. Donald D. Deans, Army Air Forces Ensign Percy C. Wilson, U.S.N.R. Sgt. Paul H. Hassler, Army . 1936 Steward H. Hartman, Army Air forces Cpl. Aaron Borish, Army John A. Morton, Army Air Corps T/Sgt. George G. Hibbs, Army Ensign John C. Schmidt, U.S.N.R. Chaplain Wm. E. Kerstetter, Army 1944 Cpl. Kenneth B. Kines, Army ]. Ray Barbary, Navy . 1937 Lt. John S. Hollinger, Army Air Forces Millard W. Altland, Army M. Warren Leach, M.C., Navy Cpl. Irving Escover, Army Air Forces Russell G. Lindauer, M.C., Army Elwood F. Melson, Jr., Navy Charles M. Pollock, Jr., Army Air Forces Lt. Elbert B. Smith, Army Air Forces George S. Poust, M.C., Navy 1938 Norman L. Timmins, M.C., Navy Pvt. Albert F. Barbush, Army James Tisdel, M.C., Army Albert R. Lewis, Army Pvt. Paul ]. Nixon, Army 1945 A/c Verne L. Smith, V-5, U.S.N.R. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 15
1946 J. Freeman Marcus, Army Joseph Asbell, Army Edmund G. Young, Marine Corps Fred L. Cooley, Jr., U.S.N.R. 1947 Robert C. Gerhard, U.S.N.R. A/S Donald B. Jaggers, U.S.N.R. Russell 'Binder, Army Lester F. Johnson, U.S. Naval Academy Philip Harper, West Point Bishop McConnell To Deliver Morgan Lectures BISHOP FRANCIS J. McCONNELL, in honor of the late President Morgan. of the New York Area of the Preference being given to discussions Methodist Church will deliver three of the relationship of classic times to lectures at the college in February under the modern world, Bishop McConnell's the James Henry Morgan Lectureship addresses will deal with Greek thought Foundation, it has just been announced and modern problems. He will discuss by Pres.ident Fred P. Corson. democracies, international relations and There will be a lecture on Monday social problems. evening, February 7 and the third lee• Bishop McConnell is a former presi• tu:e on Tuesday evening, February 8, dent of DePauw University. He is the with the second lecture at the Chapel author of sixteen books. He was the on T~esday, February 8. The annual Lyman Beecher Lecturer at Yale Uni• reception for "A" students will be held versity in 1930 and the Barrows Lec• on .the evening of February 7 or 8 in turer in India in 1931. He has also conjunction with the lecture of that date. delivered the Merrick Lectures at Ohio .several years ago, the Trustees set Wesleyan University and the Cole Lec• aside a fund to establish the James tures at Vanderbilt University and many Henry Morgan Lectureship Foundation other addresses. Dickinson Club of New York Opens Dinner Season ITH fifty present, the Dickinson formal group singing. He had prepared W Club of New York held the first special song sheets for the occasion and alumni club dinner of the season, on the singing proved one of the features December 3. The annual meeting was of the dinner. held at the Midston House, and Rev. The speaking program opened with a John Wesley Lord, D.D., '27, acted as witty and characteristic speech by Paul toastmaster. Appenzellar, '95. He was followed by "Education After the War" was the Gilbert Malcolm, and then President Cor• subject chosen by President Fred P. Cor• son spoke. son ~or his address. At the beginning Following the practice of the New he digressed a bit, however, to reminisce York Club to have its officers serve two before the club of which he is a former years, all of the officers were re-elected. president. After the program of spe~ches he held a question and answer They are: President, Dr. Lord; Vice• session to tell the alumni what they President, Thomas S. Fagan, '19; Sec• wanted to know about the College of retary-Treasurer, Mervin G. Eppley, '17; today. and Dr. Irving Marsland, '14, Rev. John M. Pearson, '18, and Rev. Arthur A. The dinner opened with the singing Bouton, members of the Executive Com• of the National Anthem and the invoca• tion, by Rev. Arthur C. Flandreau, '03. mittee. During the dinner Dr. Irving A. Mars• The meeting closed with a prayer and land, '14, presided at the piano for in- the benediction by Rev. Mr. Bouton. 16, THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS College and Law School Graduate Becomes Judge
HARLES SCOTT WILLIAMS, '26, C '29L, twice district attorney, who had thirteen years of varied and suc• cessful private law practice, was elected Judge of Lycoming County, Pa. at the general elections last month. In defeat• ing Thomas Woods, Esq., of Muncy, in the general elections, Judge Williams received the biggest majority ever given a judicial candidate in Lycoming County. He received a majority in every election district. An active member of the Republican party, he has had two judges serve under him as his assistants in the district at• torney's office: the Hon. Samuel H. Humes who died in 1943; and the Hon. Spencer W. Hill, who was appointed by Governor Edward Martin, and was defeated by ~illiams in the primary, CHARLES S. WILLIAMS, '26, '29L by an almost two to one vote, after ac• tive support of the Republican county M. of Williamsport. He is a member chairman and executive committee had of the Williamsport Consistory, Baldwin been given to Hill. Commandery Knights Templar, and th~ Irem Shrine. He is also a member 0d He was first elected district attorney in the Odd Fellows, the P. 0. S. of A., an 1935, when the Republicans lost most the Grangers. of the county offices. When he was Born on November 28, 1904, a: re-elected he became the first district Picture Rocks, Pa., he is the son d 0 attorney since 1904 to be re-elected in Lycoming County. Alvin Samuel and Emma Frairn Stade en Williams. Graduating from Roaring While active in legal and political Spring High School, he entered the affairs, Judge Williams is also well College in 1922 where he became a known for his church, civic and Ma• member of Kappa' Sigma fraternity.· He sonic activities. He has twice been was also a member of Skull and Key elected a trustee of the Central Pennsyl• and Ravens Claw. He graduated from vania Conference of the Methodist the College in 1926 and. then entered Church. He is treasurer of the Preach• the Law School, from which he gradu• ers' Aid Society of the Central Penn• ated in 1929 and where he became a sylvania Conference and a trustee of member of Corpus Juris. . Williamsport Dickinson Seminary. He For a year following his graduat10? is a director of the Lycoming County from the law school he was on the edi• Salvation Army and of the Red Cross, torial staff of The Altoona Tribune and and is on the executive committee of then from 1927 to 1930, when he lo• the Boy Scouts of Lycoming County. cated in Williamsport, he was spoi;ts He is a director of the Bank of New• editor of The Evening News, of _H~rns• berry, Pa., and served on the tire panel burg. He served as U. S. Commissioner of the Williamsport rationing board. of Williamsport from 1921 to 1935, the Judge Williams is at present Worship• year he was elected district attorney. ful Master of Lodge No. 106, F. & A. He was married to Miss Helen Hag- THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 17
ing with his own pictures articles for erty, of Altoona, in 1932; she died in the secular press including . the. Church 1936. In May, 1940, he married Miss periodicals of many denommat10ns and Helen Edler of Williamsport, and they several books, among them "Footprin~s have one son, Scott Alvin Williams. in Palestine" and "Cruising the Medi• terrane·an." Birth Announcement _Dr. and Mrs. James P. Earp of West• Finds Vitamins in Edible Soybeans mmster, Md., announced the birth of Dr. Paul R. Burkholder, '24, of the a son on October 23. Mrs. Earp is the Osborn Botanical Laboratory, Yale Uni• former Miss Florence Rowe, of Me• versity, is the author of ~ pape~ "Vit~• ~hanics_burg. ML Earp was an instructor mins in Edible Soybeans, published m in sooology at the college from 1935 the August 27 number of Science. to 1937. "Present world events forebode a general scarcity sooner or lat~r of foods of animal origin, such as milk, cheese, Resigns Hanson Place Pastorate eggs and meat, which are _important. in . Dr. J. Lane Miller, '06, has re• our diet because of proteins and vita• signed the pastorate of Hanson Place mins," Dr. Burkholder writes, continuing Central Methodist Church, Brooklyn, "In the future it may become necessary N. Y. because of ill health. His resig• for us to rely more and more upon nation will become effective May, 1944. plant foods as substitutes for animal Dr. Miller beca~e pastor there in proteins." January, 1933, following a pastorate at He states that "although soybeans and Franklin Street Church, Johnstown, Pa. the numerous food products which can During his unusually long pastorate of be made from them are eminently de• twenty-one years, a record in Brooklyn sirable from the nutritional view-point, Methodism, a merger of Hanson Place their use as food thus far in America and Summerfield Methodist Churches and Europe has been limited to specialty was consummated and a new edifice, items. That millions of Chinese have :·Brooklyn's Cathedral of Service," cost• lived on a diet of rice and soybeans mg over a million and a quarter dollars, for thousands of years constitutes a great was erected. Dr. Miller leaves the natural experiment from which much can church with a first mortgage debt of only be learned. In the future when large $60,000, and during his pastorate more quantities of edible soybeans become than 2300 joined the church. available, and when food producers and He has served a term as president of the ceneral public are educated to ap• the Brooklyn Federation of Churches and preci~te the qualities of desirable kinds of the New York Methodist Preachers' of Soja, the various products made from Meeting. He is a member of the Brook• them may play a more prominent role lyn Clerical Union the Monday Club, in the food supplies of Occidental Rotary Club and Beta Theta Pi fraternity. peoples as they have for centuries past During his vacations Dr. Miller _has in the diet of Orientals." traveled frequently around _the Mediter• ranean, serving as Chaplain and Lec• Becomes Hotel Manager turer on summer cruises. For many sea• Herbert Wilks, '23, has been named sons he has been a Lecturer in the Travel manager of The Flanders, Ocean City, Department of the Brooklyn Institute N. J. He succeeds Mr. Howard Slocum, of Arts and Sciences. He has collabor• who died recently. He was assistant ated with Mrs. Miller (Madeleine manager of the hotel for some years. Sweeny Miller) in writing and illustrat- 18 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS
EDITORIAL
When the Boys Come Back ,. SINCERELY hope the day I can return to Dickinson is not too far away Is. the sentence from a letter of not one young 1 a d on 1 y, b u t I it has beenf written by many Dickinsonians now in the armed services in all parts 0 the world whose college careers were halted by the declaration of war. h w Others who have graduated have written another sentence. "I found out 0 much Dickinson meant to me when I got into the service." 'ck When the war is won these veterans will return to the campus, some to pt t up their books again, and others to meet their· classmates and fellow veterans a commencements, homecomings, class reunions and fraternity dinners. b k There is an obligation on the College to be ready when the boys come a~.' ready for the matured veteran battled scarred and wiser, who wants to find IS place in the world later than the boys in some classes. th There is an obligation of the alumni to help the College to be ready when ~ boys come back. This is not limited to financial support through gifts to the A!uTn~ Fund and Post-War Fund but applies to carrying on the traditions of alumni h u dinners, commencements homecomings class reunions and fraternity dinners. T e~e occasions should be fine; and brighter than ever when the boys come back-and t e time to plan for them is now.
What's the Score? ~E great hue and cry of other years that a college could never survive if it T did not have a winning football team seems to have gotten lost some~here. The fact is that a number of colleges got along pretty well this fall without any football team. Certainly many college officials enjoyed the week:ends better and there were fewer Blue Mondays without Saturday's scores to explain, E~e!l many of. the most rabid fans of other years are confess!ng now that the gridiron seasoi: is over that while they saw a game every Saturday m other ye~rs, and somet~mes a high school game on Friday night, they allowed the 1943 campaign to pas.s without seeing a single encounter. Perhaps, after all, it wasn't the deep heart interest of the spectator which filled the stands in other years and m~de foot• bal! appear to be the classic sport of the ages and the life-blood of American edu• cation. At c~lleges ":'here Navy trainees were eligible to play this fall there was. a degree '?f mterest m football, but it was below that of other years. Even there with ~tars bemg transferred to new stations during mid-season and often on the eve of important games, the uncertainties dimmed the brilliance of the sport. Certainly it was clearly demonstrated in the fall of 1943 that American colleges can and did survive without football, and that some educators are saying there was a more normal college life because of its absence. It is also being reported that the physical education programs of the Army and Navy have impressed college youth in such a way as to convince them that the athletic development of all transcends foot• ball training for a few. College football might find itself one of the casualties of the war. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 19 Alumni Dinners in War-Time HE success of the annual dinner of the Dickinson Club of New York held 0f D~cember 3 clearly demonstrates that such functions can be held by all Tto h a urnni clubs. It might mean that the officers and dinner committee will have di uni. for a good hotel or restaurant, and it may also mean that alumni will have to f/l ah Itt~e deeper for the annual party, but after the party is over everyone will e t at rt was worth while. w~tere is gr:~ter obligation on alumni club officers to plan more carefully and to ~ore diligently this year than ever before, and there is a duty on alumni to respon promptly to the call of these officers and by their presence to make alumni events successful and fine occasions. ar Alumni cannot visit the College under war-time conditions. Few public events th: ~n co~lege calendar. Accommodations in Carlisle could not be provided if ? 1thelege did plan elaborate events. The College then must be brought to the bea 1 umrn t 1in. th ese d ays when the alumni. cannot come to the College. One of the s mediums for this is the alumni club dinner, and hence their importance rises as never before. J h ".17ith nearly a thousand Dickinsonians in the armed forces, there will be missing , shoul, at many alumni club functions. To fill these gaps, those who are at home s ou d be present this year. T There will be alumni reunions in all parts of the world as long as the war lasts. 0 many of these only the best wishes and prayers of those of us at home can be frorr The Dickinson Club of Algiers has had at least one meeting, and reports rem there and elsewhere testify to the joys of reunion and the prayerful hope that soon again before Old West we can all sing "We're Lounging on the Old Stone Steps."
Millions for Endowment OMMENTING on the annual financial report at th~ mid-winter meeting of the Board of Trustees, President Boyd Lee Spahr said he remembered when C the College sought an· endowment of one million dollars, an_d . now that it was nearly two millions, he had raised his .figures to three or four m1ll10ns. After the 1922 Endowment Fund campaign for a considerable time the endowment fu.nds .were on the fringe of the elusive million dollar goal. It was not until the mtd-wmter meeting of the Board of Trustees m December 1932 that announcment was made that the million dollar endowment was a reality and that the total stood at $1,002,424.45. According to the audit of June 30, 1943, the endowment totalled $1,528,542.14. There have been additions since then and there are collections from bequests in process which will raise this total to the border of two millions. President Corson r~ported at the Trustees meeting that gifts totalling $75,000.00 had been received since the May meeting of the Board, and President Spahr reported the collection of a $10,000.00 bequest, and that monies would be received from other estates soon. President Spahr's proposal to raise the sights to three or four or more is com• r:iendable and proper. It is obvious that the best insurance for the future of the liberal arts college is an adequate endowment fund. No Dickinsonian will object to the growth of the Dickinson endowment fund and all will want to have a share in making it as strong a guarantee for the years ahead as possible. 20 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS
LETTERS FROM OVERSEAS
A letter from Lt. Arthur J. Thomas general testing section of his company. reveals that he has been assigned to the He was promoted to first lieutenant May Force staff as assistant S-4, which is the 28, 1943. Supply branch of the Army. In his letter written November 18 he also said: In requesting that he be.. re.m.~~bered "Nothing much of interest to report ex• to various faculty members, V1v1 added cept that we are going through our rainy, "Yes and don't forget MacAndrews." windy season. The wind reached the Ensign W. R. Eshelman~ '41, mailed speed of 98 mph. the other day, and a Christmas card early this month on we had rain for four days straight with• which he wrote "I haven't come acr~ss out a letup." any Dickinsonians in this ar~a .bu~ I md ------on the look-out." This area rs indicate Lt. Harry W. Speidel, '42, wrote a V-Mail letter on November 13 giving in the greeting "Felices Pascuns Y 1~~ his new address, in which he said: "I mejores descos para el Ano Nuevo .. Dick's address Navy 115, Box 14, c/o am now operating with the Tenth Air is Fleet Post Office, New York, N. Force in India, and was quite surprised Y. to find a Carlisle boy in my squadron. Mrs. Josephine B. Meredith received I think he went to Dickinson for a few a Christmas card bearing pictures of Kan• months or so. His name is James Alexis." garoos early this month. It came from Jane D. Curtis, '39, 0£ the Army Nurse On November 23, Ensign John J. Corps, who is apparently somewhere in Ketterer, '43, who is in the Pacific, wrote Australia. saying "Where I am, I am not allowed to say; but I am aboard a ship and at Lt. Edward C. Raffensperger, '36, is present very much aware of my ignorance with an Air Corps Squadron as one of in matters of the sea. But given enough the medical officers in India. He wrote time I should be able to go through at that he is billeted in the deserted man• least some of the motions of being a sion of an English tea planter, and . is sailor convincingly." surprised that he is comfortable while ------near the front and subjected to bomb• Lieutenant Hugo Vivadelli, '33, wrote ing attacks. Apparently he is on the from England on November 19 saying Burma front. "The country is quite nice, but the weather not so hot. I like it as well as can be expected. I would like to tell you Mason H. Watson, '37, who is in the the exact n_ature of work I am doing, Marine Corps and is now stationed but for obvious reasons I cannot do so." somewhere in Newfoundland, wrote on "Vivi" entered the service July 10, November 18 to tell that he had enlisted 1942 and while at Camp Sibert, Ala., in the Marine Corps in October, 1942 was accepted for 0.C.S. at Edgewood and after going through training a?d candidate school had accepted a dis• Arsenal. He was commissioned January charge to be a civilian for twenty days. 9, 1943 and assigned to the 45th Chem• He then re-enlisted as a private for com• ical Company at Camp Sibert. He took bat duty. During his furlough he mar• a course in toxic gas at Huntsville Ar• ried Miss Louise McCall of Johnson senal and then went to Edgewood Arsenal for an intensive course on chemical war• City, Tenn. He says in his letter: I have run across only one of my brother Sigs fare agents. He is now head of the since I have been in the service, and THE DICKINSON. ALUMNUS 21
that was Lt. (jg) Harold Binder of the Joins Lehigh Faculty Navy ... I often hum 'We are loung• Dr. ]. William Frey, '37, was ap• mg on the Old Stone Steps' to myself pointed assistant professor of German to keep my spirits up. All of us want at Lehigh University in July. He had to get this thing over with and get home been professor of German and French to the States, our homes and resume a at Presbyterian College, Clinton, S. C. normal life as soon as possible." for the past two years. At Lehigh Professor Frey is engaged in teaching conversational German to Pfc. Stephen Allen '3 7 left the the Advanced Group of the Foreign States in February 1942 and has been servj · N ' ' Area Classes of the ASTP, training f ng m ew Guinea and Australia soldiers for work in occupied Germany. or. more than a year. He recently spent Professor Frey is also continuing his ~/1ck leave in Australia, when he wrote: research work in the field of the Penn• returned to my old battery after a sylvania Dutch dialect. very enjoyable and needed rest in a small, modern town in Australia. It was about the size of Carlisle and the Moses Receives Honor ~nter of a rich farming country, with Howard E. Moses, '98, of Harrisburg, odern . stores, restaurants, theaters, etc. Pa., was elected an honorary member of 0 ne thmg was most like home-the the Federation of Sewage Works Asso• Sa!avation Army meeting in the center ciations in Chicago, on October 22, at ~f the. town Saturday evening, and they the annual meeting of this organization. alk, smg, and look just like the same The· Federation is of international at home and in Carlisle." scope having active members in the . Allen's wife lives in Massachusetts United States, Canada, Great Britain with a year-old daughter whom he has and South America. It was organized never seen. in 1928, has a present membership of over 2500 and stands pre-eminent in the field of sewage and industrial wastes Serving in India treatment and the sanitation of water• Le~ghton J. Heller is one of the ways. Its publication, Sewage Works 0.Sg~icktnsonians. serving in India, and his f ournal, has a wide circulation through• army career is also one of. the unusual out the world. ones. Honorary memberships are limited to Forsaking a lucrative practice at Clem• ten, not more than two being granted ~~ton, N. j., he enlisted as a private in yearly. This year's other recipient is e Army Medical Corps without the Professor Charles Gilman Hyde, Pro• prospect of being a candidate for a com• fessor of Sanitary Engineering, Univer• mission. Later his value was recognized sity of California. and last August he was transferred from Mr. Moses is Chief Engineer and Di• the medical unit to Headquarters Com• rector of the Bureau of. Sanitary Engi• bany to work in the J Lidge Advocate' s neering, Pennsylvania Department of ffice. He and the captain who rs his Health, in which department he has had ~perior ~omprise the legal departm~nt. thirty-five years' continuous service. He heir chief work consists of examma• served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Fed• t. i?n of courts martial records and the eration from its organization in 1928 givmg of advice on the preparation of to 1940 and as a director until 1943. In charg~s. They also sit in a judicial this latter capacity he represented the capaoty. Sergeant Heller's exact where• Pennsylvania Sewage Works Association, ~bouts are unknown except that he is the fourth largest group in the United somewhere in India." States, and was its president in 1929. 22 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS
PERSONALS
1889 Fla was elected to Senior Active Membership Rev. Charles W. Straw, retired member of in ., Rotary International· m· o cto b er: The the Philadelphia Methodist Conference re• award was made in recognition of his man¥ cently celebrated his eightieth birthd~y. contributions to Rotary both as a memb;r ~ He served the College as secretary of the bis club and as a governor of one o t. e Board of Trustees for fourteen years and for districts in Florida. In 1933-34 he was a long time was actively interested in general r: college matters. man of the Constitution and By-Laws om• mittee of Rotary International, For thirty years he was secretary of the Isabel B. Teale, wife of Edward L.. Teale, Bo~rd of Trustees of Methodist Hospital in died last August. Mr. Teale now res1deb at Philadelphia and, upon retirement from the 72 Jefferson Street Garden City, N. Y.1 ne active pastorate, was elected Chaplain of the of his sons is in 'the Pacific and anot .ier m Hospital until illness caused his resignation from official positions in that institution. Florida. b a Edna Albert, of Gardr-ers, Pa., . ecam~ia• Dr. Straw has served the general church in Life Member of the General Alumni Asso the district superintendency, on church boards tion this month. and in the pastorate since his graduation in 1909 1889. He IS a member of Phi Beta Kappa D pastor of and Phi Delta Theta, where he holds a Cer• The Rev. John W. F I ynn, D · ., d o tificate of Membership in the Golden Legion. the First Methodist Church, Cldve~~v'eland His residence is in Highland Park, Dela• has moved to 3005 Corydon Roa ' ware County, Penna. Heights, 0. 1897 1911 Joseph P. McKeehan, president of the Miss Sarah Ellen Rockefelle~ ha;dal~, ('.arlisle Deposit Bank and Trust Company daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Ric . d . b . p was marne since 1931, was re-elected at the annual di• Spahr, of Mechanics tg,R ba.,_t A Johnson, rectors' meeting in November. on October 9th, to P c.d Mo·er p rr.y Wendell 1901 USMC. . . ., son of Mr. · anN y is. ine St Luke ' s William R. Schmucker is manager of the Jo~nson, of Cornmg, M;cha~icsburg.' Rev. Washington service office of Nash Clothes Episcopal Church, , ffi · t d In the with offices in the Kresge Building, Wash• Frederick V. Holmes, 24, 0 era e. .' ith the mgton, D. C. absence of the bride's father,. who .15 w · 1902 A rmy m. Af nca,. s he was given, in marriage M. B. Hockenberry moved from San by her uncle, Boyd Lee Spahr, OO. Fernando, Calif. in October and is now living 1912 at 1648 Idlewood Road, Glendale, Calif. Clarence A. Fry and A. E. Kountz, '13L, Colonel William A. Ganoe has been de• have announced the formation of a partner• tailed to the European Theatre of Operations since last May. ship for the general practice of Jaw under the name of Kountz, Fry, Stal~y _& Meyer, 1903 with offices in Union Trust Building, Pitts• On October 10, when Bishop Robert burgh, Pa. The other men;b~rs of the firm Nelson Spencer was in Cleveland in attend• are Austin L. Staley and Wilham A. _Meyer· f ance upon the General Convention of the John E. Myers was re-elected pres1d~nt of Protes~ant Episcop~l Church, he preached in the Lemoyne Trust Company at a meeting o the First Methodist Church, of which the the board of directors in November. Rev. John W. Flynn, '09, is pastor. 1913 1904 W. M. Heaton is principal of the Centen• Lt. James H. Hargis, son of Mr. and Mr~. nial High School, Pueblo, Colo. J. H. Hargis, has been awarded the Air Medal for "meritorous achievements over 1905 Sicily." Anna Jean Spears has resigned from the executive secretaryship of the Lancaster Clara ]. Leaman, missionary on leave fror;i Y.W.C.A. after eighteen years of successful India, delivered an address "Our Father.~ work. She is now living with her two sisters, Business in Cburchless War Industry Areas, on October 19 at the fourth annual conven• Dr. Mary. Spears and Miss Ethel Spears, at 320 Brooklme Boulevard, Brookline, Upper tion of the Women's Missionary Society of Darby, Pa. the West Pennsylvania Conference of the Joseph S. Diver, lawyer of Jacksonville, Lutheran Church. The convention was held in the Union Lutheran Church at York, Pa. THE DICKINSON AL UMNUS 23
1923 :M:au . 1914 de E. Wilson, of Washington D C Florence Hilbish is teaching at Westmont b ecame L"f ' . ., Al . a 1 e Member of the General College in California. She is living at 117 urnm Association in November. So. Virgil Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif. She F Chaplam Charles· C. Cole is stationed at is also engaged in research on a new book, ortc Monmouth ' N ..J Jane West. ass. apt. Carlyle R. Earp has completed his 1924 ~n igd~ent at Washington, D. C. and is now Carolyn Henninger, daughter of the Rev. C u Y at the Quartermaster Replacement F. LaMont Henninger, D. D., of Sunbury, enter. Camp Lee, Va. entered the college as a freshman in October 1915 and was pledged to Pi Beta Phi. Mrs. Naomi S. K. Givler, mother of Mrs. dirH~len Neyhard has been named guidance 0~ Lester A. Waters of Bellmore, N. Y., died ~~ of girls at the Carlisle High School. at her home in Boiling Springs at the age of rank of Warfield has. been promoted to the 81, on November 18. She is survived by an• be Commander in the Navy and has other daughter, Miss Reba K. Givler, and was pa~~ thservmg in the South Pacific for the the widow of Joseph D. Givler. ree months. Anna F. Geyer is a teacher in the West co~:~af Goldstein and Roger Todd have be: Chester State Teachers College. . 1. e members of the General Alumni A ssoc1at1on. Dr. Huston G. Foster, for the past year, has been on the staff of the Pennsylvania 1917 Sanitarium at Hamburg, Pa. T/rA. Hopkins is manager of Chief Joseph 1925 is : 1J1g Post, Enterprise, Oregon, where he John W. Roddie, father of John W. Roddie, ealer rn real estate and livestock. Jr., of New Rochelle, N. Y. died of a heart Ai~ Gilbert White, who has been in the ailment on August 4 in Norwalk, Conn., at t [: smce World War I, has been promoted the age of 71 years. Born in Ireland, Mr. t~ t / rank of colonel. He is s;rving with Roddie came to America in his youth and A~O celand Base Command. His address is built an ice route into a large and successful 860 c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. ice company which he sold in 1938. Since then he was active as president of a real Ch 1917L so arles D. Johnson, son of Frank L. John• estate company. i n, of Woodbury, N. J., entered the college Mrs. William Smethurst and her two sons n C?ctober. Shortly afterward he was elected moved in October to their former home in ~lesident of his class and was selected as a Montclair, N. J. For some months previous ass representative on the Committee of Co• Mr. Smethurst had been with the Monroe operation. Calculating Co. in the New Jersey area. ]. Vernon Hertzler has been promoted to 1918 the rank of lieutenant colonel and is assigned th RM. George Compton Kerr is pastor of to 11th Headquarters, Special Troops, Third e ethodist Church at Parkesburg, Pa . Army, Camp Barkeley, Texas. . The Rev. Lester A. Welliver, D.D. was Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Steck, of Orlando, ~naugurated president of Westminster Theo- Fla.; announced the birth of a son, Stephen ogical Seminary on October 30. President F McKenney, on November 23. follred p: cO rson was the speaker at a luncheon 1926 ti owing the inauguration as the representa- Rev. Roy T. Henwood has moved from ive of the colleges. ' Sidney, N. Y. and now resides at 408 Wyom• 1919 ing Avenue, West Pittston, Pa . . Charles D. Karns is teaching photography Rev. ]. Resler Shultz, pastor of Allison inl t~e Technical High School of Dade County, :M:ethodist Church of Carlisle, was elected F onda. president of the Ministerial Association last 1920 month. Prof. Russell I. Thompson of the faculty 1927 wa? the College representative at the inaugu• Henry W. Monyer received his commission r;_gon of Dr. Richie Schultz as president of as a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Naval egheny College on October 18. Reserve in April and was sent to the pre• 1921 flight school at Chapel Hill, N. C. as an in• structor in mathematics and principles of w ~au! R. Walker~ columnist and political flight. After five months there he was filer for the Harrisburg Telegraph for more assigned to the U. S. Naval School at Holly• than twenty years, resigned in November to accept _a position as publicity director of wood, Fla. Columbia Pictures Inc. and has since taken Lt. William A. McAdoo of the Army Chap• up his residence in N~w York City. lain Corps was wounded in the battle for - 24 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS
Buna and later contracted malaria. He was August. He delivered the address in his hospitalized for some time at a South Pacific capacity as chairman of the Chicago Ba~ Asso• base. ciation's Junior Bar section. The Junwr .Bar Dr. Austin F. Brunner, of Newport, Pa., group comprises all members of the Amencan was appointed a first lieutenant in the Army Bar Association who are under 36 years of Medical Corps last month. Married and the age. father of a six-year-old son, he served four Rev. Paul D. Leedy resigned as pastor ?f years with the Reserve Officers' Training the Methodist Church at Gettysburg rn Corps. He had been examining physician for October to devote his time to his work as a a local draft board. member of the faculty of the College. While Alfred C. Fray has been teaching science teaching at the College he is also pastor of and Latin in the Mahaffey High School in the Methodist Church at Boiling Springs. addition to his church work at Glen Camp• Charles M. Shields entered the U. S. Naval bell and Mahaffey. Service on September 18 and upon complet• 1928 ing his recruit training at the Great Lakes Mrs. Robert E. Woodside, Jr. was elected Naval Training Station was advanced to the president, in October, of the Women's Repub• rating of pharmacist's mate, 3rd class. lican Club of Millerstown, Pa., where she and 1931 Judge Woodside reside. Rev. and Mrs. Howard A. Rubendall an· Lt. Chauncey M. Depuy, who has been on nounced the birth of a second daughter, duty for some time in Adak, Alaska, w~s Suzzane, on August 10. transferred last month. His new address is Since March, 1941, Mr. Rubendall has been H.E. C.P., N.0.B., Navy 230, F.P.O. San pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Francisco, Calif. Albany, N. Y., which has a membership of Dorothy E. Harpster, who became a Lifer 1200. On the same street Dr. W. Earl in November, is teaching English in the West Ledden, '10, is pastor of Trinity Methodist Chester High School. She is living at 130 Church, the largest Methodist c~rnrch rn Price Street. Albany. Rubendall was formerly director of 1929 the Department of Religion at The Hill Lt. (jg) J. Watson Pedlow, USNR, was School. He is a trustee of the Albany married on October 15 in Calvary Episcopal Academy for Boys and serves on the West• Church in Crozierville, Pa., to Mrs. Colin minster Foundation of Columbia University. P. Kelley, Jr., widow of the nation's first air He teaches Religion one day a week at the hero of the war. Dr. G. Wesley Pedlow, '34, Emma Willard School in Troy, N. Y. and was best man. frequently preaches at Williams College, 1930 Union College, Skidmore, The Hill School Lt. William D. Angle was placed on in• and the Hotchkiss School. active status as a reserve officer in the Naval Lt. Henry A. Spangler has been assigned Reserve and resumed his practice as an eye as medical officer in the Amphibious Force specialist at Williamsport, Pa., on October 1. attached to 1. S. Ti's, ships designed to land He suffered a back injury in combat training tanks and equipment on enemy shores. He on the commando course at Camp Allen, Nor• is serving somewhere in the Pacific. folk, Va. in July. He did not receive a Rev. William I. Lockwood received a call medical discharge and is subject to recall to during the past summer to return from the duty at any time following a physical exami• West to an eastern parish. He accepted and nation. Dr. Angle was commissioned a lieu• is now settled at All Saints Episcopal tenant, senio'. grade, in October, 1942, and Church, Lakewood, N. J., where he lives at was first assigned to the Naval Hospital at 215 Madison Avenue. Key West, Fla. He was training for over• George. B. Northern is a technician, fourth seas duty at Camp Allen when he was injured. grade serving in the Army overseas. While the September number of THE It has been learned that William E. Cobb DICKINSON ALUMNUS reported that John 1. is serving in the Naval Reserve as Lieutenant Mangan had been named director of activi• (jg) and is living at 1728 Pierce Street, ties at the Kingston High School, it did not Hollywood, Florida. report that he entered the Army in July and 1932 was assigned to an Engineer battalion at Ft. Mr. and Mrs. S. Bruce Kennedy have an• Leonard Wood, Mo. nounced the birth of a son, Robert Bruce, Samuel W. Witwer, Jr., who is junior on June 2, 1943, at Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. partner in a Chicago law firm, delivered the Kennedy is the former Dorothy Somerville. address of welcome to the American Bar Albert J. Miller, of Tyrone, Pa., is an Association's Junior Bar section at the open• apprentice seaman in the Navy. He is receiv• ing of the American Bar Association's annual ing training in Co. 1735, U.S.N.T.S., Great national convention held at Drake Hotel last lakes, Ill. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 25
Robert A wa·d · . . h degree. This has just been published. Miss the A" · '1 ner, w 11 0 is serving wit b tr Force Headquarters in China has Loder, who has received her Ph. D. degree een promoted to the rank of major. ' from the University of Pennsylvania, is a . Jdohn H. Forney of Harrisburg was mar• teacher of French in the high school of r2i3e . to Miss Dorotl1y Palmer Fish 'on October Bridgeton, N. J. m th T · · Mr. and Mrs. George A. Hansell, jr., of Hill. e rrrury Lutheran Church of Camp Media have announced the birth of a son on November 20, Thomas Stevenson Keller ten~~tDc:nald Ness was commissioned as lieu• Hansell, named for his grandfather, who is ber addJunwr grade, in the Navy in Novem• a member of the Class of 1907. He is their in W was. assigned to temporary active duty third child. Mrs. Hansell is the former ashmgton. Elfrieda Keller. 1933 Dr. and Mrs. Carl S. Vestling announced Gerald L Zarf . . . A 502 AAA 6 os rs a pnvate m Bty. , the birth of a second daughter, Christina L un Bn., Camp Edwards Mass. Louise, on October 4. Mrs. Vestling is the and t .. Alan M. Wolf is in the Coast Guard former Christina Meredith. 1 believed to be on duty in the Panama The Rev. E. N. Beers, who has been pastor Cc ana 1s Zone · H e was a member of the Perry at Brandon, Vt. moved in October to 46 intounty h bar _assoc1at10. . n b e f ore hi. s entrance Pleasant Street, Ludlow, Vt. 0 t e service June 1942 William Steele, Jr., who entered the Th ' ' . Canadian Army, was transferred from the rank ornas L B_rooks was promoted to the RCAF to the U. S. Army Air Forcee during ber captain m September. He is a mem• the summer while stationed in England. He 0°f fa t f the academic department of the In- is serving as a navigator and is now a staff n ry School at Fort Benning Ga He re- ceived hi ' · sergeant in the Bomber Command. he wa rs in August and was assigned last month to Elbert B Smith received his wings and a medical unit. His address is now 1263rd was commi~sioned a second lieutenant in the S.C.S.U., Mason General Hospjital, Brent• Army Air Force as a pilot on August .30, wood, Long Island, N. Y. when he was graduated from Freeman Freid 1936 at Seymour, Ind. He was then assi&ned to Lee W. Raffensberger of the faculty of the Smyrna, Tenn. for training as. a Liberator Carlisle High School is also assistant foot• bomber pilot. At the end of his sopho~ore ball coach and javee basketball coach. year Lieutenant Smith transferred from :qrck• Mary Elizabeth Ralston, daughter of Rev. inson to the Wharton School of the Umver• and Mrs. S. H. Ralston of Mechanicsburg, sity of Pennsylvania, from which he was was married to Lt. Harry Van Ness Eldredge graduated in February, 1938. When he of Londonville, N. Y., on October 16, in entered the Army he was connected with the the First Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Miss. Guaranty Trust Co. of New York City. She was attended by Margaret M. Martin, '35. Millard W. Atland is serving in the Army, John A. Novack, formerly a member of though his family do not know his present the college faculty, graduated from Officers' whereabouts. Candidate School and received his commission Irving Escover is serving as a corporal in the Adjutant General's Department as a with the 60th Bomb Sqd. at Davis Mouthan second lieutenant in October. He was then Field, Tucson, Arizona. assigned for duty with the Air Corps at C. William Gilchrist, attorney in Cumber• Warner Robbins, Ga. His most recent address land, Md., became a life member in Novem• is Rome ASC, Box 126, Rome, N. Y. ber. Recently the address of George G. Hibbs Lt. Miles D. Garber, Jr., Army Medical has been missing. Inquiry developed t~at he Corps, is on duty at Station Hospital, Fort is serving as a technical sergeant with a_n Eustis, Va. Army ordnance ammunition company and is Professor and Mrs. J. W. Frey announced overseas. Part of his address is APO 635 c/o Postmaster, New York City. the birth of a son, Allan Hunter, on February Aaron Borish is serving as a corporal in 22, 1943, in Clinton, S. C. Dr. and Mrs. the Army somewhere in the Pacific area. This Frey, who is the former Jean Kratz, now was learned last month. reside at Bethlehem, where Dr. Frey is a Corp. Kenneth B. Kines entered the Army member of the German department. in February and is now serving as company Irving E. Meyers has been promoted to clerk and personnel clerk of Co. L, 3rd Ord. the rank of first lieutenant in the Air Corps. Tng. Rgt., O.R.T.C., Aberdeen Proving He is in the Office, Legal, Boards and Claims Ground, Maryland. at headquarters Florence Army Air Field, Ensign Peter Sivess is attending the Naval Florence, S. C. Radar Training School at St. Simons Island, Elwood F. Melson, Jr. is in Company 1728, Ga. Fire Control School, U.S.N.T.S., Newport, John Z. Macomber is with the Army in R. I. Alaska. Lt. Arthur G. Bouton is adjutant of a 1938 Medical Corps unit at Camp Stewart and is Mark 0. Kistler, who was instructor in living at Richmond Hill, Ga. Lt. and Mrs. German at the College, resigned in Septem• Bouton announced the birth of a daughter, ber to go to the University of Illinois to Beverly Ann, on April 10, 1943. . teach and continue graduate work for his M/Sgt. Frank A. Mader has been selected doctorate. He has an A.M., which he re• for Star training by the Army and his address ceived at Columbia. is Star Unit 3910, Co. A. Sacramento Junior Lt. John William Bailey, USNR, was mar• College, Sacramento, California. ried to Miss Geraldine Weightman, daughter Lt. (j.g.) Daniel K. Davis of the Chaplain of Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Weightman, of Corps is now at the Naval Hospital Pensa- Greensburg, Pa., in the chapel of the Phila• cola, Florida. ' delphia Navy Yard on September 18. Mrs. 1937 Bailey is a graduate of the Greensburg High Robert P. Miller, who entered the Army School and the Carnegie Institute of Tech• a year ago as a volunteer officer candidate nology. She is an ensign in the U. S. Naval was commissioned a second lieutenant in th~ Reserve, stationed at Philadelphia. In October infantry on the completion of the course at Lieutenant Bailey was promoted from lieu• Fort Benning, Ga. in September. Prior to tenant, junior grade, to lieutenant, senior his entrance into the Army he was in the grade. advertising department of the duPont Com• Albert F. Barbush was inducted into the pany of Wilmington. Army on September 30. He was assigned Lt. John A. Harter is with Bty A, 578th to Co. C, 8th QMTR Trn. Rgt., 4th Plat., A.A.A. AW Bn.(Sp.) Fort Bliss Texas. Camp Lee, Va. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 27 Helen Audra Ahl of Carlisle was married Med·Arthur A · M erme l stern. , who entered the 1 to Lt. Ressler Arthur Dusseau of Monroe, Barr~ck C?rps and was trained at the Carlisle Michigan in Covenant First Presbyterian the pc ~, is now a first sergeant serving in Church of Washington, D. C. on September . pacific theatre and assigned to the Army A.Ir orce, 20th. The couple reside in Washington, Paul J Ni · . . f where Mrs. Dusseau has been employed for and hi ·dd xo~ JS a private m the In antry two years and where her husband is stationed. Bks ~~4a Cress rs Co. D. 39th Inf. Tng. Bn., Lieutenant Dusseau is a graduate of the Col• Ra , amp Croft, S. C. lege of Mines, University of Michigan, where tion y~dnd B, Shore is enrolled as an avia• he was a member of Kappa Delta Psi Fra- Fli ht et m the Army Air Forces Pre- ternity. ~ t, School for Pilots at Maxwell Field. Harold B. Fry was commissioned in Sep- U Sancy H. Bacon, who is an ensign in the tember and assigned to Basic Training Center the i Navy, was transferred in November to No. 10 of the Army Air Forces Eastern Cali"f on~ Beach Naval Hospital, Long Beach, orrua, Technical Training Command at Greensboro, Stanley Th . . h N. C. as an athletics and recreation officer. macist' w · ompson is servmg as a p ar- Cpl. Kathryn E. Goodhart completed her Medic sl mate, first class, at the U. S. Naval WAC training at Daytona Beach and was Streetsa B Supkply Depot, Sands and Pearl assigned to WAC Detachment Sec. I, Fort Lt , roo lyn, N. Y. Des Moines, Iowa. Md: G. Winfield Yarnall of the Army After returning from the African invasion, tio~ HH1 C?rps is stationed at the 280th Sta• Lt. John H. McAdoo, of the Army Air Corps, A.lb ospital, Camp Livingston, La. was assigned as an instructor at Dale-Mabry pro rael! R. Lewis is in the ASTP, training Field. With Mrs. McAdoo he is living in Lehi? hm Uof. th: Army, studying French at Tallahassee. ig ruversity. After two months of Naval training for 1939 chaplains at Williamsburg, Va., George E. Barbara I. Barakat has been made a cor- Thomas reported for duty in September at WporalAC in th e WA C. Her address is. 746 the Naval Training Station, Sampson, N. Y. Tex Hq. Co. A.A..F. Perrin Field, Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. F. ]. Gibbons announced the as. marriage of their daughter Dorothy Morss N Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Parks of Brooklyn, Gibbons, to Ensign Jay Rutter Gross, USNR, th ", Y. have announced the engagement of · on August 10, 1943, at Rahway, N. ]. Meir daughter, Marjorie, to Pfc. Wallace B. 1940 Paokre. of Astoria, Long Island City. Miss Walter S. Williams is now a staff sergeant th: ~ 1f a teacher of English and Spanish in in the Signal Corps. His address is Hqt. Co. Pf a ley Stream High School, N. Y., and A, 588th Signal AW Bn., Drew Field, G c.d Moor~, who formerly was stationed at Tampa, Florida. He first entered the Army Car .en City, Kansas, has been located 'in in September, 1940, was discharged a year A.i~cmnati, Ohi_o, since June, takin_g t?e later and then re-enlisted in December, 1941, o{ z.P .. course rn languages at the University in the Field Artillery. He was later trans• E 1i:icmnati. ferred to the Signal Corps and is now in the f ns.gn Joseph R. Sansone spent a short permanent cadre at Drew Field. af~ 1 ough at his home in Lebanon in October, N er ha long tour of active duty at sea in the Lt. W. Elmer Thomas, USNR, was married Ort Pacific. On at least one of bis adven• to Miss Betty Kopp, daughter of Mr. and Kres1 he was at sea in naval action off Mrs. Charles Kopp of Lykens, in the Grace Methodist Church there, on September 25. alchatka in Northern Asia. For the past three years Lieutenant Thomas trai 1: Harold A. Bouton completed Army w inmg at Yale University last month and has been assigned as a pilot in the U. S. is as_ assigned to duty at Seattle, Wash. He Navy Air Corps. C m communications work in the Ground Pvt. and Mrs. Louis C. LaBrecque, of Hart• a~ew of the Air Corps. He and Mrs. Bouton ford, Conn. announce the birth of a daughter, n the birth of a son, Harold, Jr., on Yvonne, on September 29. Mrs. LaBrecque Ju 1°uy n13ced. is the former Yvonne Laird. th;tN. (jg). Richard A. Miller is serving with Kenneth F. Tyson completed his training avy m Newfoundland. at Harvard University and was graduated on S Edward E. Knauss, III, is now a Staff Nov. 13, when he received his commission la~~~ant in the Army serving in Newfound- as a second lieutenant in the ·Army Air Corps. He was assigned to duty in California. th Mrs. Frederick J. Carter has announced Dr. J. Kenneth Miller is serving an interne• t e Marnage of her daughter, Elizabeth Jean, ship at Bashline Rossman Hospital Grove T r. Charles Stanton Pond, on October 2. City, Pa. ' Suffhcouplee now reside at 27 Wayne Avenue, John Ulrich of Bethlehem, Pa., enlisted in ern, N. Y. 28 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS the Army and entered the service on Sep• at Luke Field, Phoenix, Arizona. He was tember 29. trained as a single fighter pilot flying a P-4~. . Harry C: Stitt was commissioned an ensign He reported, after a brief visit with hrs :n the United States Naval Reserve in June parents, for orders, at San Francisco. in the Supply 'Corps. He is at the Harvard James R. Humer, who is stationed at Fort School of Business Administration, taking Dix, N. ). in the Chemical Warfare section additional courses there. of the Air Corps, has been promoted to the Brooks Kleber is with the 302nd Inf., rank of technician, fifth grade. APO 94, Camp McCain, Miss. Edward Keating is in Hawaii. His address Martha S. Stoll was married on May 29, is APO 955 c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, 1943, to Jerome C. Gorman, in Grace Calif. Methodist Church, Harrisburg. Her husband, Henry Blank of 2920 Fairfield Ave., Bridge• who is an alumnus of Pennsylvania State port, Conn. was graduated from the school College; is in the Navy, and she is living of dentistry of the University of Kansas City at her home in· Harrisburg. She is serving on September 19, when he received the de• as a secretary with the Army Air Force gree of D.D.S. Intelligence School at Harrisburg, after being Bayne Snyder is at the Agronomy Farm, employed at Indiantown Gap, the New Ames, Iowa. Cumberland Depot, and . the Reading Army James A. Kerr has been named to the Air Field. faculty of. Pennsy!vania State College as an Pfc. C. Blair Kerchner is now serving in instructor rn English composition. the South Pacific with an Ordnance company. Alice Margaret Zeigler was married to C. Ensign Franklin L. Gordon entered the Guiles Flower, Jr. '39 in the chapel of the service in April and graduated from the Market Square Presbyterian Church, Harris• USNR school at Columbia University at the burg, on October 2. Milton E. Flower, '31, end of July. He will complete a course at served as hi~ brother's best man, and Joseph Harvard University at the end of this month. D. Brenner, 39, was one of the ushers. The 1941 couple now reside at Cumberland Md where Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carl Van Buskirk of Mr. Flower is a research chemist ;ith the Milwaukee, Wis., announce the birth of a Celanese Corporation of America. son, Carl Mansfield Van Buskirk, on Septem• Lt. C. Paul Burtner has been promoted to ber 12, Mrs. Van Buskirk is the former Mary the rank of first lieutenant and has been in Mansfield. England since August. He has been made Morris F. Foulk Jr. is a private, first class, Group Armament Officer and has his office in the Army and is a junior at Hahnemann at headquarters. His address is 392 Bomb Medical College. Group Headquarters, APO 634, New York. Ensign Samuel ). McCartney has been Announcement has been made of the en• assigned to the Amphibious Forces. His gagement of Dorothy Louise Greenawalt, address is USS LST 77, Fleet Post Office, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Owen P. Grecna• New York, N. Y. walt, of New Cumberland, Pa., to Lt. (jg) Robert R. Owens received his commission Robert Clayton Shenk. Miss Greenawalt is as a second lieutenant in Anti-aircraft Artillery secretary to the principal of the New Cumber• at Camp Davis, N. C. last April. In October land schools. The engagement was announced he was stationed at the Army Ground Forces in November at a luncheon in the Penn-Harris Depot at Ft. Meade, Md. Hotel, Harrisburg. lieutenant Shenk had just Lt. Donald R. Morrison, who received his returned from eight months' service with the Army commission in .May, 1942, is personnel Navy which had taken him around the world. consultant rn the Adjutant General's Depart• Carolyn M. O'Hara was married to Lt. ment. On June 4, 1943, he was married to (jg) John I. Jones on September 26 in the Miss Lillian F. Goerges of Harrisburg Pa. First Lutheran Church, Carlisle. Margaret Markin K. Knight graduated fro;n the Martin, '35 was maid of honor and Olive Engineer Officer Candidate School last Feb• Fitzgerald was bridesmaid. George Shuman ruary and has been platoon commander of was best man, and the ushers were Benjamin Co. A, 60th. Eng. Btn. at Camp Rucker, Ala., D. James, Russell Tyson, and Robert Craig. for some time, though he was previously Having completed a tour of duty in the located in California. Pacific, lieutenant Jones has been assigned to . Clyde M. Hughes, Jr., who. is now in the Norfolk, Va., where the couple now reside . A.rmy, was married to Miss Margaret Rhoads Mr. and Mrs. Eric Lyndon Crickmay an• Lindemuth, daughter of Mrs. Faun A. Linde• nounced. the marriage of their daughter, Joyce, muth, in the First Presbyterian Church of to Lt. (Jg) Andrew Wallace Walters, USNR, York, on Sunday afternoon, December 5th. October 24, in Norfolk, Va. James R. Hertzler received his commission Lt. Bayard J. DeNoie is serving in the as a second lieutenant and his wings in No• Dental Corps at Bryan Air Field, Bryan, vember, upon the completion of his training Texas. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 29 th Richard A. Zimmer has been promoted to October 20 from the Naval Air Training no~ rank . of captain in Field Artillery and is Center at Corpus Christi, Texas. h . stationed at Ft. Sill Oklahoma where Dale Robert Dubbs has been promoted to tee is a staff officer of the '261 P.A. B~. Lieu• the rank of first lieutenant in the Marine Corps and is serving somewhere in New m~:nb· Gruenberg, II, '40, writes that he rn . dick early this month and says "he is Guinea. arrre and a fathe " Lt. Robert H. Fleck was married to Miss Wh·1 r. Constance R. Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lieut I )n a twelve-da.y leave b~st month, r Elwood Smith of Lewistown, Pa., on August visited hg Richard Weimer, Manne Corps, . . t e college. He is serving as a navi• 29. His father, the Rev. Robert E. Fleck, performed the ceremony in the Methodist gtator 1l1 the Air Transportation Service be- Ween the W C . Church of Port Royal, Pa. Lieutenant Fleck Pacific. est oast and islands of the entered the Army in September, 1942 and was commissioned upon bis graduation from th H~ry R. jonz s is now a first lieutenant in the Infantry Officers' Candidate School at the t tr Corps and is serving in the Pacific Fort Benning, Ga. He was then assigned to w:~h~' APO 980 c/o Postmaster, Seattle, Camp Croft, S. C. He is now stationed at Camp Mackall, N. C. 1942 Martha Bosler was accepted by the United lv{Capt. Norman D. Stuard was married to States Marines in September and reported for M~~s Esther 1. Winter, daughter of Mr.. and training at New River, North Carolina in J · Josh A. Wrnter of Rochester, Minn., October. f°R 19, at Arcadia, Fla. She is a graduate Lt. Raoul ]. Archambault is now with the 0 ochester Junior 'College. Marine Corps somewhere in the Pacific, where t Captain Stuard, who dropped out of college he has been for many months. ao denter the Army in 1941, received his wings Charles Strahan Jr., who is a student in N hrs commission as a second lieutenant in the medical school of the University of Mary• h ovember of that year. In August, 1942, land, suffered badly burned hands in an explo• Ae was promoted to first lieutenant, and in sion in the laboratory where he was doing ug~st, 1943 to the rank of captain. He is special research work, and was a patient in an rn.structor at the Basic Air School at the University of Maryland hospital. A rcHadt a .' Fla . Pfc. Robert L. Forman and Pfc. Ezra J. A arry F. Ruth Jr. is now serving in the Epstein are in the Army, attending the New rmy and has been promoted to the rank of York Medical College, Flower and Fifth ~0tporal. He is in the Tank Destroyer Bat• Avenue Hospitals, New York City. a ion at Camp Hood, Texas. Forman has a new address. It is 300 Naval Aviation Cadet Joseph Franklin Gay• Riverside Drive, Apt. lOA, New York City. ~an has been transferred to the Naval Air The address of Ensign William Barwick is raining Center, Corpus Christi, Texas, after N.A.S. B.0. Quarters Peru, Indiana. ~uc.ce.ssful completion of the primary flight ~~inmg course at the Naval Air Station at Mrs. James E. Skillington is attending the fli envrew,. rn. After passing the advanced Law School of Temple University. Her hus• h.ght training course there he. will pin on band is overseas. 1~ wings as a Naval aviator and be com• Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. McClellan of missioned as an ensign in the Naval Reserve Carlisle have announced the engagement of or as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps their daughter, Virginia McClellan, to the Reserve. Rev. WilJiam W. Spiegelhalder. Miss N Be. began his Naval aviation car~er ~t the McClellan is a teacher in the Carlisle High Navy s pre-flight school at the Umvers1ty of School, while her fiance is pastor of the Orth Carolina, Chapel HilJ, N. C. Mt. Joy and Salunga Methodist churches. Albert E. Andrews graduated from the Lt. Fred Schaeffer is located at Brookville, 0 fficers' Candidate School of the Quarter• Fla., where he is serving as an instructor in master's Corps in November when be re• Applied Tactics at an Army Air Force School. ceived his commission He was chosen the The engagement of Mary Rich Snyder to outstanding member of. his class at the O.C.S. Lt. James R. Hertzler, '41, was announced at W 1fargo C. Boote, who graduated from a dinner given by Miss Snyder at the Drake th heaton Co1le15e i.n 1942, is now attending Hotel, Philadelphia, in November. Miss e Wave Midshipmen School at North• Snyder is employed by the Curtis Publishing ampton, Mass. Company in Philadelphia. Lt. Hertzler is an hi Lt. W. L. Marucci is now overseas an? Army pilot' stationed near San Francisco. is address is Lt. Washington L. Maruco, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Stokes announce AWPO 999 Group S., c/o Postmaster, Seattle, the marriage of their daughter, Dorothy ash. Margaret, ·to Harrison Clark Spencer, USNR., Vincent Yarashes was commissioned an on November 2~ in Baltimore, Md. The ensign in the USNR on his $raduation on 30 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS couple now reside at 1719 Park Ave., Balti• In the September number of the Alumnus more. an error appeared when it was said that 1943 Norma Gardner had made an extended visit The address of Sgt. Paul H. Hassler is to Canada during the summer and was teach• 950th S.E. F.T.S. Yuma, Arizona. ing in New Jersey. It is Emma Gardiner who spent the summer of 1943 is Canada W. Harold Gould, Phi Beta Kappa graduate and taught science in the Atlantic Highlands of the College in September, was awarded a High School, N. J. scholarship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and entered there October 25. Mr. and Mrs. ]. S. Gardiner announce the While pursuing his studies in chemical en• marriage of their daughter, Emma, to William gineering, he is assistant with a Government L. Sanborn, '41, on November 6 in Baltimore, research project. Md. They now reside at 12 E. Highland Ave., Atlantic Highlands, N. ]. John Joseph Curran has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army and his Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Cocklin, of Bow• address is 1549 Calhoun Street, New Orleans, mansdale, Pa., have announced the marriage La. of their daughter, Miss Jayne Elizabeth Cocklin to Aviation Cadet Steward Hartman, John ]. Ketterer completed his training at on September 18 at Ft. Stockton, Texas. Mrs. Columbia University and received his com• Hartman is a graduate of the Mechanicsburg mission as an ensign in the USNR on October High School, attended Shippensburg Teach.ers 20. He was then ordered to report for duty at Seattle. College and is employed at' the Mechanics• burg Naval Supply Depot. Capt. George W. Aungst, who has been in Pfc. Charles Jay Overcash was married tf the Army since 1941, is a special student at Miss Mary Virginia Manning, daughter o the college while stationed at Carlisle Bar• Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Manning of Cham• racks. He has been a member of the band bersburg, on September 11th, at the First there since March, 1942. On August 6, 1941 U. B. Church, Chambersburg. Mrs. Overcash is he was married to Miss Margaret C. Wagner'. a graduate of the Chambersburg High School daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Wagner and is employed at the Letterkenny Ordnance of Carlisle. Depot. Overcash is a student at Jefferson Val D. Sheafer Jr. of Carlisle, is an aviation Medical College. cadet in the Army Air Force. Ensign Horace L. Jacobs, III, became a lifer Upon the completion of his course at in September. His address is 34, Section Franklin and Marshall in November, Pvt. Base, Key West, Fla. He is on a patrol Robert Cohen of the Marine Corps received craft on the lookout for enemy submarines his Dickinson diploma at the hands of Presi• along the coast. dent Corson. He was then assigned to Platoon Charles F. Saam, who is in the quarter• 823, Battalion 12, at Parris Island, S. C. master's Corps at Camp Lee, Va., was pro• John C. Schmidt was commissioned an moted to the rank of corporal in October. ensign in the· Navy on April 14th last. He John A. Morton, of Camp Hill, Pa., is an spent six months training at Harvard Uni• army aviation cadet now enrolled at the AAF versity and then was assigned in November Pre-Flight School for pilots at Maxwell Field, to the Philadelphia Navy Yard for. temporary Ala. Later he will be assigned to a primary duty. During this month he will probably flight school. be given an assignment at sea. Donald D. Deans, of North Adams, Mass., Aviation Cadet John E. Oyler was married has been commissioned a second lieutenant in to Miss Betty Mumper, daughter of Mr. and the Army Air Forces after completing his Mrs. Wilbur Mumper of Newville, in the training at Turner Field, Albany, Ga. chapel at Yale University on September 18. 1944 Mrs. Oyler is a graduate of the Newville High School and had been employed by the _ In the September number Richard Foulk United Telephone Company. Oyler is in was listed as a member of the Army. He training at Yale University. is in the Navy and is a freshman at Hahne• mann Medical College, with the rating of Eugene E. Wolf will enter Northwestern apprentice seaman. University in January under the Navy V-7 training program. In October report came from Jimmy Griel from Africa saying that he had lost his stripes Miss Norma Gardner is teaching at St. and was a private again, because he sat out Stephens Church, and is living at 5407 and watched an air raid instead of staying in Tuckahoe Avenue, Richmond, Va. his foxhole. Pfc. Vincent Rovito has been selected for D. Fenton Adams is serving in the Quarter• AST training and is attending New York master Corps and his address is Co. K, 12 University. Qm. Trt;. Re~t., Camp Lee, V a, THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 31 ini chn Stanley Hollinger completed his train• Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Masland have an• Wh in October at Ellington Field, Texas, nounced the engagement of their daughter, Wi;n he was commissioned and received his Elisabeth S. Masland, to Pvt. Whitney B. ~. gs as a pilot in the Army Air Corps He Garrett. Mr. Garrett entered the Army last th~as then assigne· d to Lakeland Fla for· fur- July and is in anti-aircraft training at Camp er training. ' · Hann, Calif. p/etty Officer)· Eugene Stumpf of Dover, James P. Trego, son of Elmer E. Trego, v ., kwas marned to Miss Dorothy Leona '17, was commissioned a second lieutenant of''-Un D oel ' .d a ug ht er o f M rs. Rosa Kunkel, also at the Midland Army Air Base, Texas, upon East Bve11? on. October 3, in Wolf's Church, the completion of his training at the bom• er m. bardier school there in November. to;~det Davi? M. Boyd is attending George• Elizabeth Jane Plank, daughter of Mr. and Bi University under the A. S. T. program. Mrs. James Mervin Plank, of Lemoyne, was Ge~/ddress is _Co. D, 2516th S.U. (AST) married to Richard E. Shipp, son of Mr. and getown University, Washington 7, D. C. Mrs. William H. Shipp, of Lemoyne, on firstG ordon M. · w·11r rams i. s servi. ng as a pnv. ate, November 21. Mr. Shipp, who is employed numb 1 as~, m the Southwest Pacific. His APO by the Pennsy 1 variia Railroad as a passenger J er is 502, c/o Postmaster San Francisco. brakeman, won the Harrisburg tennis-tourna• ment for three years. He was one of the nect~~n ~aymond Bowen, who has been con• national indoor junior doubles champions and Stat' with the Halloran General Hospital at a member of the Junior Davis Cup Squad. Mede_n New York, will enter Jefferson ica 1IslCand,ollege in January. Morris Levan Kramer of Carlisle is an apprentice seaman in the Navy attending Pv(«~Ie at Franklin and Marshall as a trainee, Franklin and Marshall College. pla · ouglas C. Rehor of the Marine Corps ga yed fon the football team and won several 1946 pa~es or the Lancaster eleven by his forward N ses. Before the end of the season in tester F. Johnson, Jr., son of Lester F. B~t~ef1ber he was transferred to Platoon 823, Johnson, '19, of York, Pa., is a plebe at the ;;.1~n 12 at Parris Island, S. C. U. S. Naval Academy, Maryland. to 1ll1_am G. Rudy was assigned last month Cadet John D. Hopper is stationed . at f\ engmeermg training courses under the Greenwood Army Air Field, Greenwood, Miss. C rITy Specialized Training Program at Newark as a student flyer. He is a candidate for the 0 ege of Engineering in Newark, N. ]. silver wings of a pilot. waDeWitt G. Cottrell of Roselle Park, N. ]., Fred L. Cooley, Jr. is in the Navy and his C s graduated from the Naval Air Training address isO.G.U., Great Lakes, Ill. B:n;er, Corpus Christi, Texas, in Novem~er. Robert C. Gerhard has been assigned to hen received his commission as an ensign. Franklin and Marshall College under the Fr~lon the completion of his course at Navy training program. Pvt ~~ and Marshall College in November, Pvt. Paul G. Bucher completed STAR train• assi ilham Groh of the Marine Corps was ing at Chaffey Junior College, Ontario, Calif. Isl gnded to Platoon 823 12th Battalion, Parris an , in November and was assigned to ASTU s. c. ' 3704, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. M Charles M. Pollock, Jr., son of Lt. Col. C. The address of Pvt. Vincent J. Schafmeister C · Pollo_ck, Signal Corps officer stationed at Jr. was changed in November to Harbor Craft L abp Kilmer, N. ]., is an aviation cadet at Detachment, c/o Postmaster, Seattle, Wash• fo~ebobck! Tex. in hi~ final lap of training be• ington. It has also been reported that he F emg commissioned m the Army Au orces. has been promoted to the rank of master th W. F. Hollinger has been promoted to sergeant. e rank of Staff Sergeant and is servmg Midshipman Richard S. Brown is not in r~0 erseas with the army in a weather squad- the Army as previously listed in the Alumnus n. but is in the Naval Reserve, serving on a former American President Line ship. He 1945 has made two round trips across the Atlantic. James Kirkley is attending Pasadena Junior Pvt. Frank Evans, Jr. has been assigned ~ollege rn the Army Specialized Training rogram. to the ASTP, Basic Training Center, Ft. Benning, Ga. at John S .. Newkam, Jr. is in the ASTP unit the University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Donald B. Jaggers is an apprentice seaman in the Navy V-12 program, and is at Columbia N Verne· L. Smith is an aviation cadet in the U avy V_-5 program and is a student at Colgate University, where his address is 529 Livings• nrvers1ty, Box 1157, Hamilton, N. Y. ton Hall. - 32 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS OBITUARY 1881-The Rev. Dr. Henry Ridgely Robinson, retired Methodist minister, died after a brief illness, at his home in Pitman, N. J., on September 10. . Born in Philadelphia on April 21, 1859, Dr. Robinson graduated from Pennmg• ton Seminary, and from the College in 1881, when he received his A. B. degree. He received an A.M. in 1884, and the College conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity upon him in 1909. . . Following his graduation from the College he was admitted to the Philadel- phia Conference, and transferred to the New Jersey Conference in 1895. He was pastor of the Centenary Church, Camden, from 1897 to 1901, and later served churches at Trenton, Long Branch, Bridgeton, Millville, Salem and Red Bank. His last pastorate was at Pitman, N. J., where he served five years, from 1912 to 1917. He was for a time editor of The Methodist, published at Germantown. He retired from the ministry in 1926 and for more than ten years he was president of the Pitman Grove Camp Meeting. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and a 32d Degree Mason. He is survived by his widow and a daughter. 1890-The Rev. Dr. Joseph Patton McComas, who retired in 1938 as vicar of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Chapel, New York City, after a service of twenty years, died on October 5, at the age of 73 years. . Born in Hagerstown, Md., on September 19, 1870, he was the son of Henry A. and Annie Virginia Smith McComas. Upon his graduation from Dickinson Preparatory School in 1886 he entered the College, and received ~is Ph. B. degree in 1890 and the A.M. degree in 1893. For two years after his graduation he studied law at Hagerstown, Md., and was admitted to the Maryland bar but then decided to study for the ministry. He att~nded the General Theological Seminary in New York and was ordained a deacon m 1896 and the following year a priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In 1899 he was appointed rector of St. Anne's Church in Annapolis and held that pastorate until 1916, when he went to New York as senior curate of Trinity Church. During his work in Annapolis, St. John's College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1911. He served Trinity parish fo~ twenty-two years and for twenty years as vicar of St. Paul's, a post he assumed in 1918. Dr. McComas was a delegate to the Pan-Anglican Congress in London in 1908 and was a representative at the bicentennial of the Church of England in Halifax in 1910. He served as president of the Clerical Union for the Maintenance and Defense of Catholic Principles from 1923 to 1929. From 1917 to 1921 he was chaplain of the old 7th Regiment of the New York National Guard. At Dickinson he became a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity. Dr. McComas's wife, Mrs. Katharine Murray McComas, whom he married in ~899, died in 1941. A son, Murray C. McComas, survives. 1891-Mrs. Florence Strock Hutton, widow of Eugene Ross Hutton, died on November 16 in Los Angeles, Calif., where she was teaching. Born in Carlisle, the daughter of Jacob and Angeline Fissell Strock, she prepared for college at the Carlisle High School. She entered the College in 1887 and withdrew the 33 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Ph'!follo w·dtnlg year. She was marned. in . December, 1899, to Eugene Ross Hutton of 1 a e phia. and For some time her address has been listed as unknown .in the college records, , at thit ;.as learr~ed just a few months agao that she had been serving as minister ce tee irst _l'.mty Chur~h at Plainfield, N. J. During thi.s past summer s?e ac• AP d1 a position as an mstructor and assistant to the pnnopal at a school 111 Los nge es, Calif. of th189S_:_It has just been learned that Samuel M. Heim, a non-graduate member N e Class of 1895, who was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity, died on ovember 3, 1940. He had been a resident of Reading, Pa. off .1896-The Rev. Thomas W. Davis, former statistician of Philadelphia and di ~ial representative of the Mayor at the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition in 1926, ie at his home in Philadelphia on Septerrrber 8. th A member of the Philadelphia Methodist Conference, he was also chaplain of Ph\State S.enate, the Third Regiment, the Pennsylvania National Guard, and of the i adelphia Athletics baseball team. Before he retired from the active ministry, 0 ne 0! the Athletics most rabid fans, he was known as "the baseball parson." He or~amze~ the "Cheer Up and Don't Worry Club," which held public meetings ~~h services on Sunday nights in Philadelphia theaters, and he often lec~ured O? e Baseball Game of Life." He was also a former s·ecretary of the City Busi- ness Club. A B He prep~red for college at the Dickinson Prepara~ory Sc~ool, received his fol] · degree ID 1896 and became a member of the Phil~delphia Conference the owm& year. At Dickinson he became a member of Phi Delta Theta Fratermty. di Dunng his. ministry he served as pastor of. the Abigail V are Memorial ~etho- /~ c.hurch, built by William S. V are and Edwin S. V are, former political chief tans 0 hiladelphia, in memory of their mother. B'U Funeral services were held in Philadelphia with the burial in West Laurel M.1 Ce'.lletery in charge of Dr. Harold Paul Sloan, pastor of the Wharton Memorial Athodist Church. Addresses were given by Dr. William H. Ford, '94 and Dr. be.rt M. Witwer, '00. Prayer was offered by Dr. Charles W. Kitto, '12. Mr. Davis is survived by his sister Mrs. Eddy, with whom he resided. f 1899-The Rev. Wilbur Vincent Mallalieu, D.D., who retired on September 1, a ter serving for ten years as pastor of Grace Methodist Church, Harrisburg, died 1Me:x:pectedly at the age of sixty-seven years, on November 16 at his home in adison, N. J. He was a former member of the Alumni Council and was a life member of the General Alumni Association. . . Though declininz health compelled him to retire from his pastorate, he greatly improved i? health d~ring the past summer and seemed ~ell on ~he road to :ecovery. A native of Baltimore, he was graduated from Baltimore City College m 1895, ~hen he entered the College, from which he received the ~.B. de~ree i_n 1899. W was graduated, with the B.D. degree, from Drew Theological Seminary ID 1902. esleyan University conferred the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology on him in 1916, and in 1935 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Dickinson Callege. After a year at Free C?urch Colle.ge, · Glasgow, Scotland, he was ordained in i(1 03 and became a pastor in the Baltimore Conference. He later was pastor at oland Park, Md.; Washington, D. C.; Englewood, N. J.; Akron, Ohio, and 34 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Charleston, W. Va. He became pastor of Grace Church, Harrisburg, in 1933 During his pastorate at Grace Church Dr. Mallalieu led a movement for the ~econ• struction of the church, which was rededicated in a week of special services m the Spring of 1940. It was on his invitation that the Central Pennsylvania Conference met there in May, 1941 for its annual session. Dr. Mallalieu was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and of Phi Beta Kappa. He. was also a Mason and a Rotarian. The congregation of Grace Church conducted memorial services for Dr. Malla• lieu in Beggs Memorial Chapel on Sunday afternoon, November 21. The Rev. Dr. William Emory Hartman, former pastor of Allison Memorial Methodist Church and former district superintendent, who succeeded Dr. Mallalieu as pastor of Grace Church, was in charge of the services. Funeral services were held at the Drew Chapel, Madison, N. J. and were conducted by two former associates at Grace Church, the Rev. Alfred B. Haas, of the Drew faculty, and the Rev. Robert A. Lystad, student at Drew. They were assisted by President Ado A. Brown of Drew and the Rev. LeRoy A. Martin, pastor of Madison Methodist Church. Interment was made in Greenmount Ceme• tery, Baltimore. Dr. Mallalieu is survived by his widow, Mrs. Gertrude S. Mallalieu, and his daughter, Mrs. Wanda Geib, wife of a Rochester, N. Y., physician; and by two sisters, Mrs. Albert Riffel, of Baltimore, and Miss Katherine Mallalieu, Princeton. 1902-Joseph Melville Arthur died on November 20 at Dr. Harvey G. Beck's Hospital in Baltimore, Md. Born August 4, 1874, in Woodberry, Md., he was the son of John Thomas and Rebecca Griffith Arthur. He entered the College from the Tome School in 1898 and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1902, when he received the Ph. B. degree. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. For two years following his graduation he was an instructor at the Danville Military Academy, Danville, Va. He was head of the Department of Science at Tome School from 1911 to 1931, and from 1931 to 1936 he was engaged at St. Mark's School, South• borough, Mass., primarily in teaching chemistry. In 1936 he became a lecturer for the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, and from that year until his death he was a member of the staff of the New York Museum of Science and Industry, and a consultant for the Polaroid Corporation of Cambridge, Mass. He was also a public lecturer on liquid air and high voltage electricity, using his own apparatus, some of an original design. From 1911 to 1935 he was a reader in physics for the College Entrance Ex• amination Board, the second longest record for readers in that subject. In 1906 he was one of the founders of The Cum Laude Society; which has been called the "Prep-School Phi Beta Kappa." He was a member of a commission to revise the physics syllabus for the College Entrance Examination Board, in 1921 and he v:as als? the aut~or :if "Classified Pro?le?1. Cours~ in Elementary Physics.'; He is survived by his wife, the former Vugmia Martin of Port Deposit, Md. whom he married in June, 1909. A son, Marion A., born in April, 1911, also survives. His son, who received the B.S. from Haverford in 1931 and a M.S. from Harvard in 1932, is now geophysicist for Humble Oil Co., Houston, Texas. Following funeral services interment was made at Hopewell Cemetery, Port Deposit, Md., and J. Henry Baker, '96, Cecil A. Ewing, '98, and Lewis M. Bacon, Jr., '02, were among the pallbearers. 35 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 1905L-Elmer Winfield Ehler, prominent attorney of Harrisburg, Pa., and Masomc leader, died on October 14 of injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile two days before, near his home. He was 61 years old. The son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George W. Ehler, he was born in Harrisburg. ~hree years after his gradL1ation at the age of fifteen from Central High School, d arnsbi.::rg, he entered Dickinson Law School, from w~ich he recc;ived the_ LL. B. egree m 1905. That year he was made State Registrar of Vital Statistics, a position he held for more than thirty years. He was admitted to the Dauphin County bar in 1907. He was a past master of the Harrisburg Lodge No. 629 F. & A. M. and he was ~ade a 32d degree Mason in the Harrisburg Consistory in 1926, and received his Tonora1;Y 3 3d degree on September 20, 1927.. He was past potentate of Ze.mbo Temple of the Shrine .. He was a member of Pilgnm Commandery No. 11, Kmghts ernplar ; o.f the Harnsbllfg Forest No '. 43, Tall Cedars of Lebanon. After many fears. directing degree work in the Harnsburg Consistory he was made commander- in-chief of that body in May, 1943. Surviving are his widow the former Miss Erma Wilson; a brother, George L. Ehler, two sisters, Mrs. Ed,na M. Hawthorne and Mrs. Gertrnde Cooper, all ~f Harrisburg.Funeral services were held at a Harrisburg funeral home with the Rev. Elias H. Phillips, pastor of Colonial Park Reformed Ch1:1rch, of which Mr. Ehler was a member, in charge, assisted by the Rev. Dr. S. Winfield Herman, pastor of Zion Luther.an Church, Harrisburg, who officiated at the Ehlers' marriage. Burial was made in Sheep's Church Cemetery. 1906-Fred Richard Smith, aged sixty years, died at his home in Clairton, Pa., on September 14, following a lingering illness. . . He . prepared for college at the Reynoldsville High School and entered the College in 1902 and graduated in 1906. He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. Upon his graduation he entered the employment of and lat~r became an official of the Clairton and Homestead Works and of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. He was a life member of Western Star Ledge, F. & A. _M., of Youngstown, O., and of the Shrine. He was a member of the Fust Presbyterian Church of Clairton. He is survived by his wife, _Mrs. Lulu B. Smith;. two daughters, Mrs. J. B. Bodley, of St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Elizabeth Horne, of Clairton; and one son, Fred R. Smith, Jr., of Clairton. One brother, Will C. Smith, of Washington, D. C., and four grandchildren also survive. Funeral services were held at his residence on September 17, and burial was made in Mt. Vernon Cemetery. 1911-Ella M. Arntzen, former member of the faculty of Liberty High School Bethlehem, Pa., passed away at her home in Alcove, New York, on September 27th: Born September 22, 1886 at Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of the late John Seivert and Emma Arntzen. She prep~red for college at Girls' High School, Brooklyn. She graduated from the College 111 1911: coming back in 1914 to receiveShe washer A.M.a member of Fritz Memorial Methodist Church, Bethlehem· and for many years taught a Bible class. in the Sunday School. ' She leaves a brother and two sisters, Andrew E. H. and Grace, both of Alcove, 36 THE DICKii-JSON ALUMNUS N. Y.; and Mrs. Alice Williams, of Bethlehem, Pa. Interment was rn Alcove Cemetery. 1915-The Rev. Russell Baldwin Dysart died of a heart attack while hunting near his home at Miffiinville, Pa., on November 12. He was pastor of the Mifflin• ville-Lime Ridge charge of the Central Pennsylvania Methodist Conference. He had gone hunting alone, and when he failed to return a search was made for him. The barking of his dog led searchers to his body. The dog had stood guard over him where he fell, and he was dead when found. Born in Newton Hamilton, Pa., on December 27, 1887, he was the son of the late William Bigler Dysart and Clara Ellen Linn Dysart. fie graduated from Dickinson Seminary in 1911 and received his A.B. degree from the College in 1915, and the B.D. degree from Drew Theological Seminary in 1918. In 1918, during World War I, he served with the Y.M.C.A. at Camp Colt, Gettysburg, Pa. During his ministry he served charges at Riddlesburg, Marklesburg, Birming• ham, Dudley, New Oxford, New Bloomfield, Three Springs and Miffii'nville-Lime Ridge, all in the Central Pennsylvania Conference. He was a mem_ber of Theta Chi Fraternity and of St. John's Lodge No. 260, F. & A. M., of Carlisle. He is survived by his widow, the former Anna L. Reynolds, whom. he mar• ried on October 29, 1931 at Harrisburg, Pa. 1923-Mrs. Violette Yeingst Bare, wife of the Rev. Howard D. Bare, '24, pastor of Falls Methodist Church, Philadelphia, died at the parsonage on October 13 after a long illness. Upon her graduation in 1919 from the Mt. Carmel High School, where her father, the late Wilbur M. Yeingst, '97, was then superintendent of schools, she and her twin sister, Olivette, entered the college. She graduated and received the Ph.B. degree in 1923. She was a member of Phi Mu, the Mcintire and Harmon Literary Societies, the Y.W.C.A., and the Scientific, Philomel, Dramatic and French Clubs. Besides her husband, she is survived by her mother, Mrs. Olive Yeingst, of Boiling Springs, i:'a., and a sister,_ Miss .Helen "'.(eingst1 _of Newtown Square. Funeral services were held m Philadelphia and interment was made in Mt. Holly Springs, Pa. in the Yeingst family plot. NECROLOGY Benjamin Jones Dashiell, grandson of Dr. Robert L. Dashiell, who was presi• dent of the College from 1868 to 1872, died at his home in Towson, Md., at the age of 76 years, on September 8th. Thoug~ not a graduate of the College he often said he felt that he had a very close connection with it. Born in Carlisle, Mr. Dashiell was a resident of Baltimore for the greater part of his life. A civil and mining engineer, he designed streetcar systems for a number of Eastern cities. At one time he was an instructor in mechanical engineering at Maryland Institute, and as a mining engineer he was active in Chile as well as in this country. The son of Benjamin J. and Sarah Rodes Dashiell, Mr. Dashiell is survived by his wife, Edna Dashiell, and two sons, Winnett Dashiell, of Baltimore, and Francis Dashiell, of Washington. DIRECTORY OF ALUMNI CLUBS Dickinson Club of Ohio Dickinson Club of Altoona W. Miller cook, '19 President PMark H. Loose. '27 prestden.t Blake Womer, '19 Vice-President argaret N. Horner. '30 Vice-President Mrs. Henry W. Lindal, Jr., '35 ReHv. G. H. Kettere.r, D. D., '08, Secretary Secretary-Treasurer ollrdavsburg, Pa. 2363 Atkins Ave., Cleveland, 0. John M. Klepser, '22 Treasurer Dickinson Club of Philadelphia Dickinson Club of Atlantic City David H. Kinley, '17L President Marjorie L. Mcintire, '10 President Rev. Alex K. Smith, D.D., '25, Lloyd·E. Spangler, '22 Vice-President Vice-President Mabet E. Kirk, '05 ... Secretary-Treasurer Ruth V. Teitrich, '26 Vice-President 4301 Atlantic Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. Dr. William C. Sampson, '02, Secretary-Treasurer Dickinson Club of BaJtimore Upper Darby, Pa.· Rev. J. J. Resh, '97 president Dr. M. G. Porter, '84 Vice-President Dicl