Dickinson Alumnus, February 1951
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DICKINSON~ ALUMNUS. I Vol. 28, No. 3 I I February, 1951 I ~be ~tcktn~on allumnu~ Published Quarterly for the Alumni of Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law Editor - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gilbert Malcolm, '15, '17L Associate Editors - Dean M. Hoffman, '02, Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.,'35 Roger II. Steck, '26 ALUMNI COUNCIL Class of 1951 Class of 1952 Class of 1953 Glenn T. Todd, '12 Russell R. McWhlnney '15 Maude E. W!lson, '14 Mrs. Marietta H. Stitzel, '19 Mervin G. Eppley, '17 Urie D. Lutz, '19 C. Wendell Holmes, '21 Dr. Charles F. Berkheimer, '18 W!lliam M. Young, '21 Thomas V. Zug, '33 Mrs. Helen D. Gallagher, '26 Dr. Robert L. D. Davidson, C. B. Hendrickson, Jr., '38 W. Richard Eshelman, '41 '31 Herbert Sheldy, W!lliam R. Valentine, Jr., H. Lyn'n Edwards, '36 Class of 1948 Class of 1949 Weston Overholt, Class of 1950 GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF DICKINSON COLLEGE President .......... C. Wendell Holmes Secretary Mrs. Helen D. Gallagher Vice-President .. Russell R. McWh!nney Treasurer Glenn E. Todd ··¢ao 11¢>· TABLE OF CONTENTS Gifts Endow Two Chemistry Chairs . 2 Establish Binary Curriculum With Case . 3 Death Claims Professor Mulford Stough . 4 Law School Starts Building a Dormitory . 6 College Trustee Heads Carpet Institute . 7 38 Lifers Send Total Over 1,000 Mark . 8 Law Graduate and Secretary of Commonwealth . 10 In Fourth Term as Secretary of Internal Affairs . 11 Becomes Headmaster of the Pennington School . 12 Becomes Headmaster of the Tilton School . 13 Edits Work on Religion by Erasmus . 14 Name Bishop Corson Kappa Sigma Man-of-the-Year . 15 Editorial . 16 Book of Faculty Member Wins Praise . 18 Named to Administrative Post in Reading Schools . 21 Personals . 22 Obituary . 29 .. c)lo===============;;;..;;;==;;;__.;;=;;;_....;;;;===II(> .. Life Membership $40. May be paid in two installments of $20 each, six months apart or in $10 installments. Alumni dues $2.00 per year, including $1.00 /or one year's sub• scription to the magazine. All communications should be addressed to The Dickinson Alumnus, West College, Carlisle, Pa. "Entered as second-class matter May 23, 1923, at the post office at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879." ~~~~======~===================~~ THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS FEBRUARY, 1951 Work Progressing on New Dormitory for Women HE above photograph was taken on are in place, and the work has progressed T February 15, 1951, to show the loca• rapidly despite a severe winter during tion and the progress of the work on the which it has been impossible to work on new dormitory for women now being many days. erected on the Rush Campus. The ground breaking was held in a The picture was taken directly south simple ceremony between showers during of the Biddle House and a few feet south Homecoming last November. At that of the pavement on West High Street. time, President William W. Edel and the In the background can be seen the Dick• president of the General Alumni Asso• inson School of Law and the residences ciation, C. Wendell Holmes, turned the on the left are on South _<;:ollege Street. first shovels full of earth after a prayer All excavations have been completed, by the Rev. Roy T. Henwood, '26. The and the lime-stone is rising above the corner-stone will be laid without much lower line of the main floor of the fanfare on Thursday afternoon, Mardi 8, building. Many of the window frames at 1 :30 o'clock. l THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Gifts Endow Two Chemistry Chairs TWO gifts of endowment for faculty the son went to Dickinson at the sugges• . chairs in the department of chem- tion of Jefferson who also was a friend 1~cry were among three major contribu• and admirer of Cooper's. tions to the College in December and Young duPont in all probability was January aggregating $152,000. one of the students engaged with Cooper In December, President William W. in experiments the chemist was then Edel announced that a gift of $50,000 making at the College. Early records had been received through W. Scott show that duPont was president of the Althouse, president of the Althouse, Belles Lettres Literary Society. Books he Chemical Company and a trustee of the read as a student are still in the College C?llege. The gift was for a chair, which Iibrary, which also has books he gave to will be established in the chemistry de• the College through his literary society. partment in recognition of Dr. Althouse' s Before his death in 1856 Alfred chemical achievements in the textile in• duPont had advanced the fortunes of the dustry. family's growing industrial enterprises An internationally known textile re• through his knowledge in the field of searcher, Dr. Althouse discovered the chemistry first gained at Dickinson. For now standard process for making wool a number of years prior to retiring in unshrinkable and developed a number of l850 he was president of the company. new processes for light-fast Azo dye• First occupants of the two new fac• stuff~. He perfected the process for ulty chairs have not yet been designated. rnultioolo- dyeing in a single operation and was the first to utilize Mone! metal successfully in textile dyeing. He also To Hold Summer Session contributed a number of advanced meth• Because of the national emergency, the ods in the manufacturing of rayon. College recently accelerated its program Irenee du.Pont, a director and former of study by opening enrolment to ex• president of E. I. duPont de Nemours ceptional high school seniors at mid• and Company, presented $75,000 to the year and reinstituting the Summer Ses• College for a chair in chemistry in mem• sion to which freshmen as well as college ory of his grandfather, Alfred Victor students will be admitted. duPont, a student at Dickinson 135 years By faculty action the College opened ago. its doors at the beginning of the current The donor's brother, Lammot duPont, semester to high school students who chairman of the board of the duPont had completed 3 Yz years of work and company, made a contribution of $27,000. were ranked in the upper tenth of their The chair endowed by Irenee du.Pont' s class. Not since 1942 had the College gift will be known as the Alfred Victor admitted high school seniors at mid-year. duPont Chair of Chemistry. Alfred The first Summer Session in four years duPont entered the College in 1814 arid will consist of two six-week terms ex• was a student under the celebrated tending from June 18 to July 28 and Thomas Cooper, then]rofessor of chem• July 30 to September 8. Three semester istry at Dickinson an one of the most hour courses from nearly all departments noted scientists of his day, who later be• of the College and including the work came the president of the University of of all four years are being offered. South Carolina. Dr. J. Clair McCullough, acting dean Alfred's father, Eleuthere Irenee du• of the College, has been appointed di• Pont, was the founder of the family's rector of the Summer Session. Teaching enterprises in this country and a friend will be voluntary and no faculty mem• of Thomas Jefferson. It is believed that ber will teach more than one half-session. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Establish Binary Curriculum With Case HE College bas entered into a co• in civil, mechanical, electrical, metallur• T operative arrangement with Case In• gical and chemical engineering, physics, stitute of Technology, Cleveland, 0., mathematics, industrial chemistry and en• which will enable Dickinson students to gineering administration. The enrollment obtain a degree in any branch of engi• is around 1,600 undergraduates and 550 neering in a combined five-year plan of graduate students. Full and part-time study, called a binary curriculum. faculty number 200. Case has an endow• The program, effective in the Fall, will ment of $6 million and buildings, equip• make it possible for qualified students ment and other resources valued at $5 who desire to take both liberal arts and million. Since its founding in 1877, it engineering training to save one to two has trained over 6,000 graduates in aH years of study. These students will branches of engineering. spend the first three years of the five-year "Dickinson is happy to be associated curriculum at Dickinson under its regu• with an institution of the quality of lar bachelor of science course and the Case," President William W. Edel stated. remaining two years in specialized study 'The binary curriculum enables Dickin• at Case. Attendance at summer sessions son to offer inducements to students who may shorten the time of study at either want careers in engineering. It should institution. bring to the College many additional The students will receive the bachelor well-qualified and ambitious young men." of science degree from Dickinson on Case has similar arrangements with completing certain requirements at Case. Oberlin, Kenyon, Monmouth, Ohio Wes• They also will receive the bachelor de• leyan, Coe and Marietta but Dickinson gree in engineering from Case upon com• is the only college in the Middle Atlantic petition of the two-year course of study States in this binary program. there. One of the aims of the binary curric• ulum is to provide highly skilled engi• Elected Fellows neers whose technical training is based Two members of the Dickinson Col• on broad liberal arts foundation. It lege faculty have been elected Fellows recognizes the importance of the liberal of the Society for American Studies of arts as a vital basis for technological the Middle Atlantic States.