DICKINSON ALUMNUS , , Vol. 31, No. 2 I I DECEMBER, 1953 , , ~be ~tcktnson a1umnus Published Quarterly for the Alumni of Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law Editor - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gilbert Malcolm, '15, '17L Associate Editors - Dean M. Hoffman, '02, Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.,'35 Roger H. Steck, '26 ALUMNI COUNCIL Class of 1954 Class of 1955· Class of 1956 Lina M. Hartzell, '10 Dr. E. Roger Samuel, '10 Mrs. Helen W. Smethurst, '25 Francis Esto! Simmons, '23 Winfield C. Cook, '32 Hyman Goldstein, '15 Joseph G. Hlldenberger, '33 C. Wendell Holmes, '21 Mrs. Helen D. Gallagher, '26 H. Monroe Ridgely, '26 Judge Charles F. Greevy, '35 Harry J. Nuttle, '38 Dr. R. Edward Steele, '35 James M. McElfish, '43 Dorothy H. Hoy, '41 Denton B. Ashway, Carl F. ·Skinner, Robert E. Berry, Class of 1953 Class of 1951 Class of 1952 c;ENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF DICIUNSON COLLEGE President C. Wendell Holmes Secretary Mrs. Helen D. Gallagher Vice-President H. Monroe Ridgely Treasurer Hyman Goldstein ··c)n======~-====-~~~~==========~11(>·· TABLE OF CONTENTS Plan Publication of New Alumni Directory 1 Football Reunion Brightens Homecoming .. 3 Women Students Make First Gift for New Building - 4 Mary Dickinson Club Holds Annual Meeting 5 Two Receive Court Appointments in New Jersey 6 Re-Elect Two Pennsylvania Common Pleas Judges 7 Receives Appointment to Cumberland County Bench 8 Elect Former Football Coach Register of Wills 9 Presents Portrait of President James Buchanan 11 Appointed Washington District Superintendent 12 Named to High Post in New Jersey Schools 13 Football Team Wins Three of Eight Games 14 Life Membership Roster Passes 1,300 Mark . 16 German Exchange Student Wields Facile Pen . 17 Death Claims Trustee After Short Illness . 19 Personals . 20 Obituary . 28 ••QOt===;;;;;,.==;;;;_ ..,...;========= llC>·· Life Membership $40. May be paid in noo instaliments oi $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 commurucations should be addressed to The Dickinson Alumnus, West Collene, Carlisle, Pa. "Entered a s second class nuitter May 23, 1923. at the post office at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879." ~~iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~~ 1~HE DICKINSON ALUMNUS DECEMBER, 1953 Plan Publication of New Alumni Directory NEW Dickinson directory of living colleges are finding budget balancing A alumni will be published in 1954, increasingly difficult was stressed by Presi• the Alumni Council decided at its Home• dent Edel. Colleges these days are em• coming meeting on Nov. 14. Because phasizing such funds and are also widen• the funds of the General Alumni Asso• ing their appeals to corporations, he ciation are insufficient for such an under• said, and indicated that Dickinson is taking, the Council called upon the Board keeping step. of Trustees to underwrite the printing The newly organized Steering Com• costs. mittee which the Alumni Council set up The new directory, it is proposed, last June to broaden the scope of the would list all living alumni up to and Alumni Fund appeal was represented by including the Class of 1957, the present three of its five members-Milton David• freshman class. Inclusion of the under• son," '33, the chairman; Dr. E. Roger graduate classes for the first time would Samuel, '10, and Judge Robert E. Wood• give the new edition longer usefulness, side, '26. Davidson gave a report on the and this fact would offset the additional work of the committee to date. cost, it was pointed out. The Council heard the suggestion that The present directory published in the Commencement Alumni Day May 1948 stops with the Class of 1947. luncheon be staged out of doors to escape Since then nine classes, embracing some the heat and overcrowding. The problem 2100 names, have entered the college. confronting local alumni clubs by the Hundreds of addresses have changed rising cost of the meal served at their since 1948 and these will be corrected annual dinner was discussed. in the new edition. H. Monroe Ridgely, '26, Council vice• Under another decision of the Coun• president, presided for C Wendell cil, subscribers to the Alumni Annual Holmes, '21, who was hospitalized for Giving Fund will have the opportunity surgery. Ten Council members, presidents to apply a portion of their gift, if they so of a number of alumni clubs and several desire, to the costs of the new building trustees attended the meeting, in addi• planned for the Rush Campus. Until tion to President Edel, Dr. Gilbert Mal• now, Alumni Fund subscribers could colm and others representing the college. have a part of their gift applied to the Library Guild by placing a check mark on the proper square on the familiar red and white subscription card. The Council Wins Commendation Ribbon decided to substitute the building fund for the Library, Guild on the card. Con• Major C P. Burtner, Jr., '41, has been tinuing the practice of other years $750 awarded the Commendation Ribbon while will be taken from Alumni Fund receipts serving in Korea. He had already re• and added to Library Guild Endowment ceived the Bronze Star. if specific gifts of at least that amount Major Burtner is Chief of Military have not been made to the library dur• Training at the Headquarters of the 5th ing the year. Air Force in Taegue, Korea. He has been The new importance of the Alumni there since last February and is due to Annual Giving Fund in a period when return to the states in January. 2 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Recuperating After Operation seen for sheer grandeur, the plane cir• clmg around the towerrng mountains -and volcanoes. After a tour of the Gaute• rnalan highland's with their scenic spots she decided to return to the Mexican border by train in order to see the tropical lowlands .. The ride proved very interest• rng-passmg through banana plantations coffee fincas, miles of sugar cane and so.me real jungle. She reckoned, however, without thought for the Spanish disre• gard of time, as the train reached the border nearly four hours late and to her dismay some two hours after the border closed. This was the rainy· season and in a torrential rain she located a small hotel where the night was spent. The next morning, when the frontier opened at nine, with an infinitesimal knowledge of Spanish, she and her com• panion were endeavoring to satisfy the C. WENDELL HOLMES immigration officers' demand for tourist cards, passports and so on, when a wel• come American voice asked, "May I be C. Wendell Holmes, '21, President of of any assistance?" The voice proved to the General Alumni Association, returned be that of Dick Renner, Dickinson '50 to his desk this month after a serious who was amazed to find a Dickinsonia~ illness since September and a major op• so far off the beaten tourist path. eration. He is Guidance Director of the Upper Darby High School, Upper Darby, . He was coming north from a long trip 111 South American countries, having been Pa. as far as the Argentine. Dick's fluent Stricken seriously ill in September, he Spanish and his experience in crossing was a patient in the Presbyterian Hospi• borders were of the greatest assistance. tal, Philadelphia for more than a month. The trio shared some bananas left from For a time his condition was critical. a box lunch of the day before and a After improving and a short time at his taxi as far as Tapachula, Mexico, where home he reentered the hospital and on the two women took a plane to Mexico November 8 his gall bladder was re• City and said good-bye to Dick with moved in major surgery. wis?es for a good trip to the states, While he lost 50 pounds and now which he had planned to make on slower weighs 190 instead of 240, he is improv• stages. ing steadily and expects to work full• time by the first of the year. Serves As Representative Dr. Raymond M. Bell, '28, professor 1909 and 1950 :Meet of Physics at Washington and Jefferson Linette Lee, '09, accompanied by her College, served as the representative of cousin, Helen Lee Savitz, spent the month Dickinson College at the inauguration of of August in Mexico and Gautemala. Dr. Harry Perry Epler Gresham as presi• The flight into Gautemala City, she re• dent of Bethany College, Bethany, ports, rivaled anything that she had ever W. Va., on October 23. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 3 FootbaH Reunion Brightens Homecoming One of the brightest chapters in Dick• Hendrickson were Sammy Padjen, Ray inson football annals was recalled at Shore, Carney Shenk, Austin Bittle, Bill Homecoming on Nov. 14 when former Hendrickson, Kinzie Weimer, Ken Tyson, coach Art Kahler and his undefeated Dick Lindsey, Curt Yoh, Bill Myers, team of 193 7 held their first reunion. Richard "Mac" MacAndrews, who was Kahler, coach at the College from 1935 the trainer; Harry Kreitzer, who coached to 1942, who came in from his home in the frosh and served as scout; Josh Bart• Kansas for the occasion, -and 20 of his ley, also a scout; George Shuman, who "boys" and coaching aides had seats of helped with pre-season training, and honor at the Homecoming game, then Giles Flower, a student manager. replayed their big season at a buffet 5L1pper in South College. Homecoming attendance was not up to the big crowds of recent years. The Receives His Doctorate day was cold and grey and still held hint George M. Sleichter, '32, received the of dense fog that blanketed most of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from East the night before.