Dickinson College is a private liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1773 as Carlisle Grammar School, Dickinson was chartered on September 9, 1783, making it the first college to be founded after the formation of the United States. Dickinson was founded by Benjamin Rush, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and named in honor of John Dickinson, a signer of the Constitution who was later the governor of Pennsylvania, and his wife Mary Norris Dickinson. They donated much of their extensive personal libraries to the new college.
John Edward Jones III is the 30th President at Dickinson College and a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He is best known for his presiding role in the landmark Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case, in which the teaching of "intelligent design" in public school science classes was ruled to be unconstitutional. In 2014, he ruled that Pennsylvania's 1996 ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. On May 14, 2021 it was announced that Judge Jones would serve as interim president of his alma mater Dickinson College for a two-year period beginning July 1, 2021. On February 28, 2022 President Jones was named the 30th President of Dickinson College.
Fred Pierce Corson was an American bishop of The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church, elected in 1944. He also distinguished himself as a Methodist pastor and district superintendent; as the twentieth president of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; and as an ecumenical Christian leader.
Percy Wilfred "Red" Griffiths was an American football player and coach and politician. He played college football at Pennsylvania State College—now known as Pennsylvania State University and professionally for one season in the National Football League (NFL) with the Canton Bulldogs. Griffiths was the head football coach at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio from 1921 to 1926 and Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from 1929 to 1930, compiling a career college football coaching record of 16–41–10. He was the mayor of Marietta, Ohio from 1938 and 1939 and served three terms in the United States House of Representatives, representing Ohio's 15th congressional district from 1943 to 1949.
Samuel Alexander Boyle Jr. was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the Virginia Military Institute (1898–1899), Pennsylvania State University (1899), and Dickinson College (1900), compiling a career college football record of 14–12–1.
Forrest Eugene "Cap" Craver Sr. was an American college football player and coach and athletic director who helped to pioneer physical education programs at the collegiate level including the introduction of intramural sports.
Joseph Amos Pipal was an American football, basketball, and track and field coach. He served as the head football coach at Doane College (1902), Dickinson College (1907), the University of South Dakota (1910), Occidental College, and Oregon Agricultural College—now known as Oregon State University—(1916–1917), compiling a career college football record of 50–35–3. Pipal was credited with devising lateral pass and mud cleats for football shoes and in 1934 wrote a book titled The lateral pass technique and strategy.
Francis Arthur "Mother" Dunn, was an American football player as well as head football coach for at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. While coaching at Dickinson he also played professional football for the Canton Bulldogs. After coaching he served as a corporate attorney in the steel industry until he retired in 1969
Joseph H. McCormick was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football at Dickinson College from 1931 to 1934 and at Mount St. Mary's University from 1937 to 1938, compiling a career college football record of 15–24–7. McCormick was also the head basketball coach at Mount St. Mary's for the 1937–38 season, tallying a 12–2 mark. McCormick graduated from Colby College in 1915.
Benjamin D. James was an American athletics coach, educator, and college administrator. He served as the head football coach at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1942, compiling a record of 1–5.
WDCV-FM is a radio station broadcasting a variety format. Licensed to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States, the station serves the Pennsylvania college area. The station is currently owned by Trustees of Dickinson College.
Alured Chaffee "Slim" Ransom was an American athletics coach and sports educator who helped develop physical education programs in Afghanistan. In the United States he was a college football and basketball coach, coaching from 1941 until 1954. His career football coaching record was 30–41–2 with a winning percentage of .411. He also spent some time coaching and as an athletic director at the high school level.
Simon Francis Pauxtis was an American professional baseball player and college football coach. He also served in the Electoral College for the 1916 Presidential Election for the state of Pennsylvania.
Henri S. Rauschenbach has served as a Massachusetts legislator and a high-ranking official in state government. He is on the Board of the Northeast Midwest Institute and the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute.
The Dickinsonian is a student-run newspaper published by students of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The newspaper is distributed free of charge on campus and to subscribers for a cost. The Dickinsonian is funded by the College and revenues from advertising and subscriptions.
The 1911 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indians football team of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School during the 1911 college football season. The Indians were coached by Pop Warner in his 10th year as head coach. The team compiled a record of 11–1, outscored opponents 298 to 49. The season included one of the greatest upsets in college football history. Against Harvard, Jim Thorpe scored all of the Indians' points in a shocking upset over the period powerhouse, 18–15. The only loss for Carlisle came at the hands of Syracuse the following week, 12–11. Walter Camp selected Thorpe first-team All-American. One source claims Thorpe was "recognized as the greatest player of the year and a man whose kicking is likely to revolutionize the game." College Football Hall of Fame members on the team include Thorpe, Gus Welch, and William "Lone Star" Dietz.
The Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center is a publicly accessible digital archive of material originating from or pertaining to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School that operated in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1918. The archival project has been undertaken by the Archives & Special Collections Department of the Waidner-Spahr Library at Dickinson College in Carlisle, and by the Community Studies Center at Dickinson College, with the help of numerous project partners including subject-area experts and cultural advisers. The project seeks to aggregate the disparate information from various sources locally and nationally into a single digital collection representing the complicated political and ethical issues surrounding the school as well as the lives of those Native Americans who studied there during its existence.
Nora May Mohler was an American physicist, elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1941.
David Custis Meade was a major general in the United States Army who served as commanding officer of the 10th Mountain Division from August 1993 to July 1995. As division commander, he also served as commander of Multinational Forces Haiti from October 1994 to January 1995.
The 1911 Dickinson Red and White football team was an American football team that represented Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The team compiled a 4–4 record while competing as an independent during the 1911 college football season. Simon F. Pauxtis was the head coach, and Luther E. Bashore was the captain.
