Dickinson College - Microcosm Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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Men of genius, while writing or working for the acclaim of their contemporaries, hold the distant years as the truest iudge of their achievements. I walk in no such lofty company, and yet in preparing this greeting for the Microcosm of 1950, I know that what I now write will have far more significance for this graduating class at its twenty-fifth reunion than it can possibly have for them as they open this book for the first time. I ask myself, therefore, what is true of the class of 1950 and of Dickinson College that bids fair to have permanent significance. There are, in the first place, some important statis- tics and what I might call surface facts. The class of 1950 promises to be the largest class ever to have been graduated from the College and spend its last year on the campus as part of the largest student Jody in the 177 years of the history of the College. t will likewise be remembered as the last class in which veterans of World War Il predominated in numbers and infiuence. To me, moreover, the class of 1950 will always be memorable because it will graduate on the 35th Anniversary of my own com- mencement and will constitute the first full college generation under my administration. There are, however, other and more important things to remember about the class of 1950-and about the College-in this year of its graduation. This class confronts a world that is sorely divided and apprehensive of the future. Its world staggers on in a twilight zone of life that is not war and yet not peace as men have habitually thought of peace. Its world divides itself increasingly into conflicting and mutually antagonistic areas of ideology and purpose: Western democratic liberalism as opposed to communist totalitarian reaction. Abounding but uneasy post-war prosperity continues in our own na- tion iat least as I write on this November day of 1949i while throughout war-torn Europe and Asia the world is in turmoil of fear and need. He would be a brave, wise and farseeing prophet who would predict what problems the class of 1950 will face before it returns to the campus for its 25th Anni- versary. In the face of our universal uneasiness for the future of the world, I dare to be confident that the young men and women of this graduating class will meet with intelligence, courage, integrity and faith whatever problems are destined to confront them in the critical years immediately ahead of us. I base this confidence on my knowledge of its members, on the truth they have learned in our classroom, in Chapel and on the playing field, on the character and ability of our faculty and on the fact that this class, like all others before it, has come to under- stand and appropriate for itself the undeviating purpose of the College, which is to train young men and women to use their minds and their disciplined natural abilities to meet life's problems honestly, and to seek for themselves and their fellows that life which the Master of Men characterized as the Kingdom of God. William W. Edel The President of the College 'lllli Pli Slllli 'I

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! l i E i E 4....,. BOARD 0F TH TEE 7949 S. M. Drayer , . . . . Charles C. Duke . Robert A. Feroe , , , , . Rev. Bishop Charles W. Flint, S. M. Goodyear . . . Rev. Bishop E. H. Hughes . George E. Lloyd, Esq., Frank E. Masland, Jr. . Harry L. Price, Esq. .. , Robert A. Waidner, Jr., Esq i 950 J. Henry Baker, Esq. . . George C. Hering, Esq. . Merkel Landis , . Dr. Roy W. Mohler . Charles E. Pettinos . . The Hon. Robert F. Rich The Hon. Karl E. Richards Dr. William C. Sampson Boyd Lee Spahr, Esq. . Ruby R. Vale, Esq. , , . . . Samuel W. Witwer, Jr., Esq.. President , Vice-President . Secretary . . Treasurer , Baltimore, Md . Baltimore, Md . , . Pottstown, Pa. Washington, D. C ,, Carlisle, Pa Chevy Chase, Md . . .Carlisle, Pa. . .Carlisle, Pa. Baltimore, Md , . Baltimore, Md . Baltimore, Md . .Wilmington, Del . . . Carlisle, Pa Philadelphia, Pa ,New York, N. Y. Woolrich, Pa Harrisburg, Pa . ,Drexel Hill, Pa Philadelphia, Pa Philadelphia, Pa . Riverside, Ill OFFICERS . .Boyd Lee Spahr . .J. Henry Baker William C. Sampson .George Shuman, Jr. 1951 Merle W. Allen . . .. G. Harold Baker .. James T. Buckley . . Raphael S. Hays . Dean Hoffman ., . Lloyd W. Johnson . . . Rev. C. W. Kitto, D.D. . Dr. Andrew H. Phelps . Robert H. Richards, Esq. . S. Walter Stauffer . . .. Col. James G. Steese ,.,. T952 Lewis M. Bacon . ,, , The Hon. E. M. Biddle, Jr.. Rev. Bishop Fred P. Corson William L. Eshelman ,.... Rev. G. H. Ketterer, D.D. . Sidney D. Kline, Esq.. .. John M. Rhey, Esq. Howard W. Selby, , . . . .Carlisle, Pa . Aberdeen, Md Philadelphia, Pa . Carlisle, Pa .Harrisburg, Pa . . Caldwell, N. J Philadelphia, Pa ,Mt. Lebanon, Pa , .Wilmington, Del . . . . York, Pa .Woshington, D. C . . Baltimore, Md Warrior's Mark, . . Carlisle, Pa Philadelphia, Pa . . . . .Mohnton, Pa. . , . . . Reading, Pa. , . . . .Carlisle, Pa. . . .West Newton, Mass Pa.

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