DICKINSON ALUMNUS ·---, I Vol. 25, No. 1 I I September, 1947 11 I rm:ue IDtckinson Zfllumnus Published Quarterly for the Alumni of Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law Editor - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gilbert Malcolm, '15, '17L Associate Editors - Dean M. Hoffman, '02, Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.,'35 ALUMNI COUNCIL Term ·Expires in 1948 Term Expires in 1949 Class of 1950 Glenn E. Todd, '12 ~ Arthur J. Latham, '10 Clinton DeWitt V .mStclen, '14 c. Wendell Holmes, ':!JI Dr. Oscar J. Eichhorn, '17 Paul L. Hutchison, '18 Judge Charles S. Williams, '26 J. Milton Davidson, II, '33 Dr. Rowland R. Lehman, '23 W. Reese Hitchens, '28 John F. Bacon, '38 Mary K. Line, '23 Christian F. Spahr. '33 Dr. John P. Mllligan, '39 J'ohn B. Fowl·er, .Ir., '34 Mrs. Nancy Tatnall Fuller, Patricia A. Rupp, Joy M. Cameron, Class of 1945 Class of 1946 Olaes of 1947 GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF OF DICKINSON COLLEGE DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW President Paul L. Hutchison President .. Justice John W. Kephart• Vice-President Arthur J. Latham First Vice-Pres Robert Hays Smith Secretary C. Wended Holmes Sec'y.-Treas Joseph P. McKeehan Treasurer Glenn E. Todd *Deceased ·•QO================================•(>•· TABLE OF CONTENTS Plan Gala Homecoming for November l . 1 A Light But Fast Football Squad Prepares for Season . 2 Elect Howard W. Selby Trustee of College . 3 Appointed to New Post of Dean of Men . 4 Named Class Dean and Admissions Director . 5 Law Professor and Judge Dies Suddenly . 6 Add Twelve to College Staff . 10 Named Assistant Dean of Law School . 16 Dickinsonian Named to Appellate Bench 17 Editorial . 18 Popular Methodist Hymn Composed in Carlisle . 20 Organize Dickinson Club of Southern California · . 22 Personals 24 Obituary 30 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 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, Pennsvlvnnin, under th» Act of March 3, 1879." ~ :i~,=============~S~ THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS SEPTEMBER, 1947 Plan Gala Homecoming for November 1 HE most extensive Homecoming T Day program since this annual Fall 1947 Football Schedule event was established is being arranged for the pleasure of alumni on November Oct. 4, Grove City Grove City Oct. 11, Allegheny Carlisle 1. New features for the participation of Oct. 18, Susquehanna .. Selinsgrove sons and daughters of the College are Oct. 2 5, Franklin & Marshall being inaugurated, and popular events Lancaster which have proved to be attractive in Nov. 1, Swarthmore .. Homecoming former years will be repeated. High• Nov. 8, Drexel ..... Parents' Day lighting Homecoming Day this year will Nov. 15, Western Maryland be undergraduate activities which prom• Westminster ise to appeal to alumni of all ages and Nov. 22, Washington & . inclinations. Jefferson . .... Carlisle As a preliminary to Homecoming Day, October games start at 2: 30 P.M. the student body will stage an old-fash• November games start at 2:00 P.M. ioned football pep rally on Friday eve• ning, October 31. With more than 900 undergraduates on the campus this year, and student enthusiasm at a high pitch, nity house and at the College Commons. this feature will be a tonic for everyone Saturday night a Homecoming Dance who gets back to Carlisle the night be• will be held in the Alumni gymnasium fore 1947's Fall alumni get-together on by the All-College Social Committee, be• the following day. ginning at 8 o'clock. An alunrnn luncheon at noon will be Homecoming Day affords an oppor• among the new features, and a special tunity for many alumni who can not get chapel program, with' music by the Col• back at commencement season to return lege Choir and the College Orchestra, to the campus when the College is in will be held Saturday morning. Between full-swing, and indications are that this 11 o'clock and noon, special student year's unusually attractive program will guides will conduct alumni on tours of draw an unprecedented number. the campus and the college buildings. A complete program of Homecoming Dickinson's opponent for Homecom• Day will be mailed to all alumni in ing Day at Biddle Field will be Swarth• October. more, and already it is certain that re• served seats for the game will be at a premium. George Shuman, Assistant Publish Inaugural Address Treasurer of the College, is honoring requests for the November 1 game in The June issue of Christian Education the order in which they are arriving at reprinted "Liberal Education for To• the College. The price is $1, including day's Needs," the inaugural address of tax. President William W. Edel. The maga• After the game, reunion suppers and zine is published by the National Protes• social events will be held at the frater- tant Council of Higher Education. 2 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS A Light But Fast Football Squad Prepares For Season HE largest football squad in the capable, fast wingmen, Ricker will need T history of the College appeared on to develop guards and tackles. Biddle Field when 60 men reported In his tasks Ricker will be assisted during the preliminary practice season by John Steckbeck, R. H. McAndre~s, which began on September 8 to Prof. Chick Kennedy, and a newcomer, David Ralph R. Ricker, head coach. Even be• Kirk who has been named to succeed fore the opening of college on Septem• Ron~ld E. Knapp. Early this mon~h, ber 25, the squad had dropped to 45, Knapp became assistant coach at Ship• including 12 letter-men from last year's pensburg State Teachers College a~ter a victorious eleven. year at Dickinson. Kirk, who is an After their experience last year when Army veteran, was graduated from West it was predicted the team would win Chester State Teachers College, where only two of the seven games, whereas he was an outstanding football and the record was six victories and one de• basketball man. f eat, the pre-season prognosticators seem The 1947 season will mark the re• to be evading predictions this year. All sumption of football relations with F. hope that Ralph Ricker's legerdeman & M. and the opening of a series with will hold good in the coming season. Grove City College. The six other tean;is It is clear that the team which will to be met this year were opponents rn take the field, will be light and fast, 1946. Four games will be played on again using the T formation, which Biddle Field and the other four away Ricker installed a year ago. Handling from home. the ball in the quarterback slot, will be Grove City will be met in the season Frankie Noonan, who weighs only 122 opener on October 4 in a game _to be pounds, but who is one of the most played at Grove City. The first home elusive runners on the squad and can game will be with Allegheny on October also pass. Another back will certainly 11 to be followed bv two away games, be Jerry Miller, who tips the scales at one with Susquehanna at Selinsgrove on 165, but is the fastest man Dickinson Oct. 18 and the F. & M. contest at Lan• has had in years. He tied the 100 yard caster on October 25. dash record and set a new mark for Swarthmore will come to Carlisle for the 220 while on the track team last the Homecoming Day conflict on s.atur• spring. day, November 1 at 2 o'clock on Biddle One of Ricker' s main backfield prob• Field. The following Saturday, Drexel lems will. be to find a replacement for will be the attraction for Parents' Day, Doug Rehor, who in his three years at November 8. Then on November 15, Dickinson, has been one of the greatest the team will play Western Maryland passers in college football. Noonan at Westminster, and the season finale will carry part of this burden and Ricker will be staged on Biddle Field on No• believes two newcomers will develop vember 22 with W. & J., the eleven into great passers. One of these is a which marred the 1946 record by admin• lefty, Bud Abbott, of Lewistown, and the istering a 19 to 7 defeat in a game other is Eugene Oler, who starred at played at Washington, Pa. Chambersburg High School and shows' At this time, three games have been a great deal of promise. scheduled for the Junior Varsity. These Graduation hi]; the line even harder are Carson Long Institute on October than it did the backfield, and it looks as 10 at home; F. & M. Junior Varsity, though the forward wall this year will October 24 at Lancaster, and West Not• weigh between 175 and 180 pounds. tingham Academy on October 31 at While he will have experienced and Colora, Md. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 3 Elect Howard W. Selby Trustee of College OW ARD W. SELBY, '1,3, general H manager since 1934 of United Farmers of New England, Inc., succes• sors . to United Farmers' Cooperative Creamery Association, of Charlestown, Mass., was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of the College at its annual meeting at Commencement in June. Mr. Selby has spent most of his life in the distribution of farm products, and in 1921 went to Denmark to study farmers' cooperatives. He is an active Methodist layman and prominent in church activi• ties in Massachusetts.