Homecoming Past

Homecoming 1965

Theta Chi's Winning Float

Campus Queen, Lynn Bailey

Homecoming 1973

Joanne Ostrowski

1973 Homecoming Queen, Melissa Rougex being crowned by 1972 Homecoming Queen, Barbara Lovenduski

To view other collections and photos, please visit the online Lycoming College Photo Archives.

The Freshman Class of 1944

On back: 'Freshman Class at Dickinson Jr. College. Names recognizable on signs: (front row) Mildred 'Millie' Smith, Martinsville, NJ; Anna 'Annie' Marie Bouslough, Hollidaysburg, PA; Ruth Myers, Hughesville; Norma 'Haney' Lee, Jersey Shore; Jeanne 'O'Dell' O'Dell, Hughesville; Dorothy 'Dot' Peach, Williamsport; Joyce 'Butch' Myers, Hughesville; Mary 'Cleve' Cleveland.' Published Oct 29 1944.

This photo is part of our Lycoming College Campus Past and Present photo collection.

To view other collections and photos, please visit the online Lycoming College Photo Archives.

Old Main Falls

The cupola on the west wing of Old Main comes down. According to the Winter 1969 Lycoming Alumni Bulletin, "Hopes of removing the west wing cupola intact were doomed; the 80' boom was inadequate to preserve this symbol of the past. Instead, the contractor decided to put a cable around the base of the tower and pull it down with a Caterpillar tractor." This photo appears on page 5 of the Alumni Bulletin with the caption "A fraction of a second later the weathervane impaled the driveway."

This photo is part of our Lycoming College Campus Past and Present photo collection.

To view other collections and photos, please visit the online Lycoming College Photo Archives.

Play Ball!

Pictured is the Williamsport Dickinson Seminary Baseball Team of 1924. On back: 'Row 1, l. to r.: Herman A. Stackhouse, George Gray Hoover, Richard Todhunter, Leonard H. Rothermel, Ernesto or Pedro Lay, Robert Ellis ; Row 2, l. to r.: team assistant, Hugh, Jr. Downs, ____, Schwab, Guy M. Houck, George Nye and Howard Swartz.'

This photo is part of our Williamsport Dickinson Seminary collection.

To view other collections and photos, please visit the online Lycoming College Photo Archives.

May Day 1956

The May Queen Court of 1956 processes through Brandon Park.

Pictured is the May Queen of 1956, Elizabeth E. Hickey ('56).

For other photo viewing options, please visit the Archival Photo Gallery which can be accessed from the Lycoming College Archives' homepage.

The History of Lycoming College

As we move ever further into the digital age, Lycoming College Archives is excited to be participating in several digitization projects. Upcoming projects will include the digitization of our yearbooks (already in progress) and, eventually, past issues of the alumni magazine (Lycoming College has made some of the more recent issues available for viewing online).

An early pilot project included the digitization of an historical look at Lycoming College from its inception as the Williamsport Academy in 1811 to its early years as a four-year college in the 1940s and 1950s.

A searchable flip book can be viewed below right from this webpage or you may click the link at the bottom of the page. Use the arrows at the far right of the page to turn the flip book pages and with the online version, there use the search box to search for names or topics of interest.


Click here to view the flip book online.
A link to this document can also be found on
Snowden Library's Archive page.

The College Mace

Snowden Library is currently featuring a display on the history of the college mace

on the main floor of the library.

THE LYCOMING COLLEGE MACE

The hand-carved Lycoming College Mace was presented to the college as a gift of the Lycoming College Class of 1963. The mace was created from walnut and cherry woods by a local craftsman, Joseph Winton. It bears the inscriptions 1812-1963, Williamsport Academy, Dickinson Seminary, Dickinson Junior College and Lycoming College in ascending positions from the bottom to the top of the intricately carved 42 inch commemorative piece. According to 1963 class vice-president Julie Bell Martin, President D. Frederick Wertz had requested a mace for the school. The mace is carried in all official academic functions of the College at the head of the procession as the symbol of academic authority.

Originally the faculty member with the longest period of service on the faculty was designated to be the mace bearer. That person retained this prestigious honor until he/she retired. As years progressed and the mace bearer aged, it became difficult in some cases for that person to fulfill the duty.

The Academic Bulletin #9 of August 27, 1999 reports a proposal to the faculty offered by Professor Owen Herring that the mace be borne by the Chair of the Faculty. The reasoning stated was that the faculty elects the chair as their leader, thus giving added significance to the role of mace bearer and to the faculty chair. Another advantage would be that the job would involve more members of the faculty. The proposal was accepted, and became effective in the fall of 2000.

From our photo collection:

Dr. Milton Skeath (1963-1967)

Phillip G. Gillette (1968-1971)

John P. Graham (1972-1982)

John (Jack) G. Hollenback (1979-1988)

Dr. Eduardo Guerra (1989-1999)

Dr. Melvin C. Zimmerman (2001-2002)

Sue K. Beidler (2003)

Dr. Mehrdad Madresehee (2008)