Gettysburg College - Spectrum Yearbook (Gettysburg, PA)

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'M 919,539 JOHN FREDERICK DAPP Business Man and Philanthropist BY WILLIAM ANTHONY GRANVILLE, PI-I.D., LL.D. OHN FREDERICK DAPP was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on june Zl, l868. While help- ing in his father's baking establishment, he received his early education in the public schools of his native city. He left the high school, at the end of his Junior year, to enter Harrisburg Academy. After 9 one year there, he entered Gettysburg Academy. But two weeks' work there sufficed to prove him such fp, a promising student that he was promoted to the Freshman class in college, class of '89, While In college, Mr. Dapp became Business Manager of the Gettysburg Monthly: and for two seasons, Captain of the 'Varsity Baseball team. He was a member of the KD K 'II Fraternity and of the Phrenakos- mian Literary Society. For financial reasons, he was obliged to leave college in the middle of his Junior year, and to become Messenger in the Merchants' National Bank of Harrisburg. On November 26, ISS9, Mr. Dapp was united in marriage to Miss Alice K. Bowman, of Harrisburg. Like her husband, Mrs. Dapp is characterized by unlimited energy and boundless zeal in countless worthy causes, and is a power for good wherever she is known. After thirteen years, Mr. Dapp had risen to the position of paying teller in the bank in which he had started as messenger. Suffering a nervous breakdown, he was compelled to retire from business, for a time, to recuperate. In 1901 he became interested in fire insurance, and to-day owns one of the largest Harrisburg agencies. Mr. Dapp was one of the founders of the Cumberland Valley Bank, fnow the Lemoyne Trust Company, and of the Sixth Street Bank of Harrisburg. In I9I0 he was elected Vice President of the Board of Directors of both the Merchants' National Bank and the Central Trust Company of Harrisburg, which positions he still holds. Elected a Member of the Board in I908, he served with such rare disinterestedness and devotion and con spicuous success that in I9l 3 Mr. Dapp was elected President of the Board of Trustees of Pennsylvania College. Of the many things which he has done for the College, space permits the enumeration of but few. It was chiefly through his efforts that Nixon Athletic Field was improved to meet the growing needs of the College. Because of his personal influence, men of means have contributed liberally to the College. In particular was he responsible for the establishment of the Burton F. Blough Professorship of Civil Engineering. In the I9l 3 campaign for endow- ment, he was a tower of strength. There is no department or activity of the College in which he does not take a deep personal interest. All heart and soul for the College, he is never sparing of either time or money in seizing every possible opportunity to advance the interests of his Alma Mater. He is a man of broad views and large sympathies. As a friend, he is steadfast, loyal, and true. His sole fault is an excessive sense of modesty. But that is a fault for which he is easily forgiven. Pennsylvania College Has No Better Friend than john Frederick Dapp. Page Eight

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To JOHN F. DAPP Whose faithful and qfciertt service to our Alma Mater commands our respect and gratitude

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