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Dickinson Magazine Summer 2011


Features

Saddle Up

Show-ring success spurs Red Devil riders to increased membership and ambition.
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Animal Magnetism

Every bark, whinny, roar, squawk or coo is music to the ears of these alumni.
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Green on the Inside

David and Virginia Jackson’s new enviro home sustains student interest.
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Still Ticking

Watchmaker Henry Line ’38 still punches the clock daily as he approaches the century mark.
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First Dog

Labrador retriever Lotte Durden is a boon companion of the presidential couple.
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Parallel Tracks

Harness racing is a successful sideline for Bob Key ’55 and Norman Aerenson ’52.
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Field Day

The great outdoors provides living, squirming lab for Gene Wingert’s students.
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Racing Genes

If Catherine Stearns Medich ’89 tells you racing is in her blood, she isn’t exaggerating.
 
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Animal Research—a Balancing Act for Neurobiologist

Biology professor Missy Niblock’s research juggles human interests and animal welfare.
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Web Exclusives

Photo Feature: Saddle Up

Take a ride with Dickinson’s award-winning Equestrian Team.
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Photo Feature: Animal Magnetism

View photos of Michael Sakatos ’98 working face-to-snout as an animal-care team member at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Park.
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A Noble Centenarian

Read a tribute to the late Milt Davidson’33 by Lon Haines ’71.
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Video Feature: Field Day

Watch a video of Gene Wingert’s turtle-tagging excursion in April with students and fellow biologist Scott Boback.
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Audio Slideshow: Framing Flight

Learn how wildlife photographer Geoff Coe ’74 captures some of his most striking shots.
 
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Photo Feature: Still Ticking

Not many folks can claim the same line of work for 80-some years. Fewer are still hard at it. But then, there’s Henry Line ’38.
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Departments

From These Grounds

President Durden reveals how his experience raising chickens as a boy in upstate New York provided valuable life lessons.
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Recruitment News

Strong appeal and strategic admissions outreach drives record applications.
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Son of the Mill Town Brings Writer's Craft to Campus

Pulitzer-prize winning novelist and Dickinson dad Richard Russo visited campus for a reading and discussion.
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Can We Talk?

Students, faculty and staff gathered in the Kline Center for an open and emotional—yet civil—conversation on social culture.
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‘What Matters Most’ Matters A Lot

Faculty, administrators and students gather for dinner and meaningful conversation.
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Lax Lets it Loose

Men’s lacrosse team captures the school’s first Centennial Conference (CC) title.
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New Endowment Ensures Permanence of Toulouse Program Directorship

Carol Jones Saunders ’62 and Hal Saunders endow Carol Jones Saunders ’62 Fund for the Toulouse Center Directorship.
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Donors, Faculty and Students Toast First in America

More than 300 donors, faculty and staff members, and students gathered to celebrate the transformational impact of the First in America.
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Alumni ‘Rush’ back to Dickinson

More than 1,300 graduates and guests returned to Carlisle for All-College Alumni Weekend.
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Dedicated Benefactors Honored

Twenty of the college’s most committed supporters became inaugural incumbents of the Founders’ Society.
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The Last Word

Michael Brooke Fisher ’66 discusses his memories of Dickinson.
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