Dickinson College - Microcosm Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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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.

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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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66OLD WEST? NAMED AN HISTORIC SITE The historic vine-covered uOld WestH was desig- nated a national historic landmark by Secretary of the Interior, Steward L. Udall. llOld West, main building of the Dickinson campus, was built in 1804. It was designed by Benjamin Latrobe, the most famous architect of his day, who was the de- signer 0f the Capitol at Washington. Years later he wrote that only three buildings he had constructed in his life gave him satisfaction, and he named llOld Westl, among the three. In a striking example of educational philanthropy worthy of emulation by all generations, Latrobe gave the plans of the stately structure without cost as his contri- bution to the new-found college of the early American frontier.