We asked, and you answered. And wow, did you answer. Last year we ran an ad in the magazine requesting comments about professors who helped to nurture alumni—directly or indirectly—in career paths. Our 20 respondents reflect upon teachers at Dickinson from early in the last century to those who still serve as mentors of students today. As you will see by the responses, it often is years, even decades, before one recognizes lasting influences. But as our correspondents reveal, it is never too late to pay tribute. Ray Phillips ’53 makes this touchingly clear in his opening essay on English Professor William R. Bowden.

If you look in vain for the professor who helped you to grow career-wise and feel inspired to comment, please send your write-up to:dsonmag@dickinson.edu. We will post comments that follow publication of the spring magazine on the magazine Web site.

A Good Knight
Professor’s student assessment gathers renewed meaning 40 years on
By Raymond C. Phillips Jr. ’53

Janice and Henry W.A. Hanson III, Associate Professor of Geology
by Rudy Slingerland ’69

Douglas T. Stuart, J. William Stuart and Helen D. Stuart Chair in International Studies, Business & Management AND PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Enrique J. Martinez-Vidal, Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages
by David W. Hoffmann ’94

R. Leon Fitts, Asbury J. Clarke Professor of Classical Studies
by Chris Carson ’82

Philip N. Lockhart, Asbury J. Clarke Professor Emeritus of Latin, Professor Emeritus
of Classical Languages
by Patricia Miller Gable ’65

Philip N. Lockhart, Asbury J. Clarke Professor Emeritus of Latin, Professor Emeritus
of Classical Languages
by Craig Cheplick ’78

K. Robert Nilsson, Robert Blaine Weaver Professor Emeritus of Political Science
by Steven Landman ’67

Philip B. Secor, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Assistant to the Dean
by John Gibson ’63

Paul Herbert Doney, Thomas Beaver Professor of English Literature
by Helen Elsenhans Everhart ’37

Katherine A. Bonney, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion
by Charles H. Lippy ’65

John L. King, Associate Professor Emeritus of Accounting
by John Steele Taylor Sr. ’76

Margaret N. Ramos, Professor of Modern Languages
by Albert G. Miller ’63

Stanley Nodder Jr., Professor of Classical Languages
John C. Pflaum, Professor of History
by Rich Weigel ’66

Whitfield J. Bell Jr. ’35, Professor of History
by Howard J. Kline ’54

Herbert Wing Jr., Assistant to the President, Professor of Greek and Lecturer in the Humanities John C. Pflaum, Professor of History Winthrop C. Difford, Professor of Geology and Chemistry
by Nina Hunsicker Lockwood ’61

Stephen B. Coslett, Professor Emeritus of Psychology
by Jim Sharf ’65

Dorothy W. Culp, Associate Professor Emerita of English
by Evelyn Short ’89

Gilbert “Red” Malcolm, Provost
by Howard J. Kline ’54

James A. Skelton, Associate Professor of Psychology
by David Strohmetz ’86

Comments on the issue from alumni