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Ten Years at the Helm Rm:Ur Idtrklnson Allumnug Published Quarterly for the Alumni of Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law Editor DICKINSON ALUMNUS ' . Ten Years At The Helm rm:ur IDtrklnson allumnug Published Quarterly for the Alumni of Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law Editor - - - - - - . - - • - - Gilberc Malcolm, '15, 'l7L Associate Editors - Dean M. Hoffman, '02, Rol?"r TT. Steck, '26 ALUM~T COUNCJl. Class ot 1956 Class of 1957 Class of 1958 Mrs. Helen W. Smethurst. '25 Hyman Goldstein, '15 Homer :M. Respess, '17 Winfield C. Cook, '32 C. Wendell Holmes. '21 Mrs. Helen D. Gallagher. Joseph G. Hildenberger, '33 Mrs. Jeanne W. Meade, '33 '26 Judge Charles F. Greevy, '35 Dr. Edward C. Raffens· Paul A. Mangan, '34 Dr. R. Edward Steele, '35 nerzer. '36 John F. Spahr, '36 Carl F. Skinner, Dr. Weir L. King, '46 John D. Hopper, '48 Class of 1953 William E. Woodside, Arthur L. Piccone, Class of 1954 Class of 1955 GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF DICKINSON COLLEGE President C. Wendell Holmes Secretary Mrs. Helen D. Gallagher Vice-President Charles F. Greevy Treasurer Hyman Goldstein ··<)1-------------------------~-===llC>·· TABLE 0 F CONTENTS Commencement to Mark Tenth Anniversary . 1 183rd Commencement Program . 4 Four to Receive Honorary Degrees in June . 5 Prof. May Morris to Retire as Librarian . 7 Appointed Head of Department of Economics . 8 Named Dean of the Dickinson School of Law . 9 Many Educators Attend Founders' Day . 11 Named Dean of Men at Monmouth College . 12 Playing Major Role in Pingry School Development . 13 Saves Baby on Plane by "Backwoods" Obstetrics . 17 Presentations Made at Priestley Celebration . 20 To Direct Five State Area in Leprosy Missions . 21 Roster Lists 1,558 Names of Life Members . 28 Personals . 40 Obituary . 52 II(>•· Life Membership $40. May be paid in two installments of $20 each, six months apart or in $10 installments. Alumni dues $2.00 per year including $1.00 for one year's sub• scription to the mngazine. All communications should be addressed to The Dickinson Alumnus, West College, Carlisle, Pa. "Entered as second class nutt.ter May 23, 1923, nt the post office at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879." ~ ~~iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil~~J~ THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS MAY, 1956 Commencement to Mark Tenth Anniversary By BOYD LEE SPAHR, '00 President of the Board of Trustees EN years ago at the annual meeting Tof the Board of Trustees in June, 1946, Dr. William W. Edel was elected 22nd President of Dickinson College. When I saw him after he had been recommended for the appointment, he was in the uniform of a captain of the United States Navy. He wore a gold braided visored cap and his left breast was covered with the ribbons and deco• rations he had won in his 30 years in the Chaplain's Corps. Though he did not serve the Navy as a navigator, he has expertly guided the ship of Dickinson College since he took the helm. The log of his ten years is now re• corded in the 183 years of the history of the College. There has been fair weather and foul, but all in all the sailing has been good. He has charted a course for the years to come headed for the Bi• Centennial Harbor in 1973 in a finer which may be used for any purpose de• ship than ever before. cided by the College Trustees. To end this allegory, the entries in the While the College has been fullf _ac• log of the past ten years show advances credited by a number of standardi_z~ng in academic recognition, improved teach• agencies for many years, new recog111t10n ing, a nearly doubled enrollment, a larger came in 1949 when Dickinson becam_e faculty, a fine and greater plant, increased one of the 110 leading colleges and uni• endowment, the interest and support of versities of the United States to be mem• many new friends, most recently mani• bers of the College Entrance Examina• fested in the $406,400 grant of the Ford tion Board, and then in 1952 joined the Foundation, one-half of which will be Educational Testing Service, Mbre_ re• received in June 1956 and the other half cently, accreditation for prof~ss10nal a year later. This grant is in two parts-a training in chemistry has been given by basic gift of $270,934, the income from the American Chemical Society. which must for ten years be used only Bringing to the faculty scholars with for increases in faculty salaries and an broad training and advanced degrees and accomplishment award of $135,466, the addition of new teaching aids and given to only 126 colleges in the country, equipment have improved the teaching 2 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS at the College in these years. The great on a friendly visit to the Wedgwood improvement in faculty salaries and family. The National Cylinder Gas Com• fringe benefits since 1946 have enabled pany, one of the largest producers of the President to hold and to secure teach• oxygen in this country, has added a check ers who might otherwise have been lost of $1,000 to the award winner. Since the to the College. During this period, six establishment of the Award, it has been professorial chairs have been endowed, presented to the following persons: two in Chemistry, two in Philosophy and 1952-Sir Hugh Stott Taylor, dean of Religion, one in Political Science and one the Graduate School of Princeton in American History. University. Chief of the teaching aids is the greater 1953-Paul W. Burkholder, '24, then use of the library with an increase in the Osborne Professor of Botany at number of catalogued books and periodi• Yale University, the discoverer of cals from 75,000 to more than 100,000. Chloromycetin, Included also are the renovation of the 1954--Karl T. Compton (now de• Chemistry laboratories, the acquisition of ceased), former president of Mas• an electron-microscope, the establishment sachusetts Institute of Technology of a statistical laboratory in accounting and in 1954 chairman of that and statistics, the electronic language lab• corporation. oratory and the audio-visual aid center. 1955-Harold C. Urey, nuclear physicist The teaching has been further strength• of the University of Chicago. ened by the broadening of the curriculum 1956--Detlev W. Bronk, president of and many new offerings. Among these the 'Rockefeller Institute for Med• are the Binary Engineering programs with Case Institute of Technology, Rens• ical Research. selaer Polytechnic Institute and the en• More additions and changes have been gineering schools of the University of made to the physical plant of the College Pennsylvania; a department of the Dra• since 1946, when Dr. Edel became presi• matic Arts, a Department of Geology, an dent, than in the term of any other Artist-in-Residence, and the R. 0. T. C. president. The new structures erected are program. South College, Drayer Hall, Morgan Of benefit to faculty and students alike Hall and the Maintenance Building at are the programs of the Great Preacher the rear of Conway. Buildings purchased Series and the more recent Great Teacher and remodeled for college purposes are Series, both of which bring nationally the Biddle House and the Mcintire known ministers and teachers to the House, now used as women's dormito• campus. ries; Montgomery Hall, the former resi• To these must be added the annual dence of Dr. Harry B. Stock, which was Joseph Priestley Celebration first held in practically rebuilt to provide faculty 1952 and each spring since, when many apartments; and dwellings on Chapel nationally known scientists and educators Avenue which were renovated as resi• participate in the program. At this time, dences for college employes. The former the Dickinson College A ward in memory health center was moved back to adjoin of Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of Conway Hall and its former site became oxygen, is given to a distinguished scien• the residence of the dean of the College. tist for his contributions to the welfare A few years ago changes to the heat• of mankind. The Award is in the form ing system cost nearly $100,000. This of the Priestley Medallion, a ceramic me• included for a central plant where the dallion struck from the original molds old gymnasium had stood and the re• made in 1779 by the first Josiah Wedg• placing of a number of underground wood. When he went to England in steam lines which cannot now be seen. 1951, Dr. Edel located the mold when In 1946 the appraised value of the THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS grounds, buildings and equipment of the Mary Dickinson Club has raised $11,300, College was about $2,000,000 while to• including a Life Membership Fund of day it is $5,500,000. $3,500 now part of the College endow• Earlier this year ground was broken ment and has made many other gifts. for the new Allison Church, now being Dr. Edel also took a leading role in the erected on the Benjamin Rush Campus formation of The Methodist Foundation where the College chapel will be held for Higher Education in Pennsylvania following its completion. and in the Foundation for Independent Some of the improvements to the Col• Colleges, Inc., of Pennsylvania, of which lege plant during his presidency were he is the president for 1956 and 1957. made possible through the major finan• Looking ahead, Dr. Edel has recom• cial campaign inaugurated in 1948 when mended to the Board of Trustees the more than a million dollars was sub• erection of a new building for Chemistry scribed in the first phase of a Ten Year adjoining the Tome Scientific Building, Development Program which he insti• the demolition of the Baird Building and tuted. Other needs were met through the the building there of a new Student Ac• Annual Giving Fund which up to June tivities Building which will include an 1955 totaled $281,048.89 for his first Auditorium.
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