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5 unusual facts about Dickinson College


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Henry Clarke, alumnus who developed the Klondike bar into a national brand, founded the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues at Dickinson College.

The College’s musical tradition dates back to at least 1858 when the Medal of Honor recipient and author, alumnus Horatio Collins King, wrote the Alma Mater, “Noble Dickinsonia” to the tune of "O Christmas Tree".

Francis Dunlap Gamewell

Due to illness he was unable to complete his studies, but instead attained a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Dickinson College.

James William Marshall

He was graduated from Dickinson College in 1848, and later was made a Professor of Ancient Languages, which chair he filled until the outbreak of the American Civil War, when President Lincoln appointed him United States Consul to Leeds, England.

Mount Edziza volcanic complex

Chira Endress, a student of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States, focused on a section of glaciogenic sediments immediately beneath the same Ice Peak trachyte lava flow sampled and described by Jeff Hungerford during his 2006 studies.


Allan Segal

After his retirement from programme making Allan Segal taught as a university lecturer and Professor of Media Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA, and Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, India.

Carlisle Area Science Advisory Committee

CASAC was founded by Carlisle Area School District, Dickinson College, Carlisle Area Chamber of Commerce and several Carlisle industries in September 1957—a month before Sputnik 1 was launched by Russia.

Charles Deems

He graduated from Dickinson College in 1839, taught and preached in New York City for a few months, and in 1840 took charge of the Methodist Episcopal church at Asbury, New Jersey, and removed in the next year to North Carolina, where he was General Agent for the American Bible Society.

Charles Strum

Charles Strum was born in 1948 and is a graduate of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he was a history and political Science double-major.

Darwin Breaux

Darwin Breaux is the current head football coach for the Dickinson College Red Devils in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and is the 34th person to take that post (several coaches have held the post twice).

Emanuel Mac Troutman

Born in Greenwood Township, Pennsylvania, Troutman received an A.B. from Dickinson College in 1934 and an LL.B. from Dickinson School of Law in 1936.

Harry Nice

He later attended Baltimore City College, Dickinson College and graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1899.

Henri S. Rauschenbach

While an undergraduate at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Rauschenbach was active in athletics playing soccer, Wrestling and Lacrosse.

Jennifer L. Holm

After graduating from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, she worked in television and later began to write.

Leonard Woods Labaree

D., Williams College, 1955, Bucknell University, 1955; Franklin College, 1956; Franklin and Marshall College, 1956; Dickinson College, 1963, and Lehigh University, 1970.

The Pennington School

Recent Pennington track participants have gone on to compete at the Division I and Division III level at The University of Texas, Lafayette, West Point, McDaniel, St. Lawrence, Wheaton, TCNJ, and Dickinson.

W. J. Gobrecht

Gobrecht was the 30th and 32nd head football coach for the Dickinson College Red Devils in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and he held that position for sixteen seasons, from 1965 until 1979 and then returning for the 1984 season.

William Henry Wahl

He entered Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1863 at the age of 15, and graduated from there in 1867.


see also

Mother Dunn

Francis Dunn, American football player for the Canton Bulldogs and head football coach of Dickinson College