Dickinson College - Microcosm Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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GUESTS The frequent presence of these guests on our campus is well worth the hard work of the student and faculty members involved. The personages are brought to the College under the auspices of several campus organizations including the Social Committee of the Stu- dent Senate: the Chapel Committee: the Reli- gious Affairs Council: and the Cultural Affairs Committee of the Student Senate, and its chairman Professor Heher Harper. WM 3... Torneau Opera Company, Cosi Fan Tutte Baltimore Symphony Woodwinds

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COLLE GE Each year Dickinson College has as its guests many outstanding lecturers and performers. The visitors are usually nationally 0r internationally prominent in their field, and their programs do much to vary and enrich our experience. Through their talks or their fine musical and dramatic entertainment they introduce us to new personalities and fresh ideas. we Folk Singer Rit'hard McLanathan. Lecturer

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Dr. Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer Each year a special commemoration known as the Joseph Priestley Celebration is held at Dickinson Col- lege. At this time, the Dickinson College Award in Memory of Joseph Priestley, the Discoverer of Oxygen, is given to a distinguished scientist for his discoveries or fer his contributions to the welfare of mankind. The Award is in the form of the Priestley Medallion, in ceramic, struck from the original moulds made in 1779 by Josiah Wedgwood after a pen sketch of Priestley drawn from life by John Flaxman in the same year. This yearis Priestley Award was presented to Dr. Kenneth S. Pitzer, President of Rice University. Author J OSEPH PRIESTLEY AWARD of several books and numerous articles in the field of chemistry, he pioneered in the application of spectro- scopic and statistical methods to the study of complex organic molecules and their reactions. Dr. Pitzer has received numerous prizes and awards, including the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry inil943, the U.S. Junior Chamber of Com- merce Award as one of the ten outstanding young men in the nation in 1950, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1951. Dickinson College is proud to recognize one of the outstanding scientists of our age.