Morris, May

May Morris Honored at Dinner
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This dinner program honors Miss May Morris in Morgan Hall on November 2, 1956, the year of her returement. Born in June 29, 1886, May Morris, Class of 1909, became Dickinson College's librarian in 1927 and revitalized its collection, budget, and general organization. She received her Ph. B. from Dickinson and a degree from the Pratt Institute of Library Science in Brooklyn, NY. When Miss Morris became Dickinson's librarian, there was only one librarian, one assistant, 52,000 volumes and a budget of $6,050.

Date: November 2, 1956
All terms: Archives, Employment, Faculty, Female Faculty, Firsts, Meredith, Josephine B., Morgan Hall, Morris, May, Norris Collection, Pratt Institute, Spahr Library
"Sting, Stang, and Stung" in Lloyd Hall
"Sting, Stang, Stung"

"Sting, Stang, Stung" is a comical piece written about the senior ladies discussing what male students are available for them for the ball. Each of the senior girls is mentioned, each singularly discussing who they would like to take to the ball and who is unavailable. The discussion soon turns to what faculty members the girls would take to the ball. After two hours of debating, the girls finally head off to bed. As an "N.B." the piece states that on the next day, the "boys came to the rescue...better late than never."

Date: 1908
All terms: 1900-1909, Bixler, Olive M., Blair, Elizabeth H., Burchenal, Alice C., Davis, Ella P., Deatrick, Ethel M., Decker, Jessie, Deiser, Edith M., Fishel, Verna H., Galley, Anna M., Gruber, S. Margaret, Hoch, Debbie, Jones, Dorothea, Leamy, Mary E., Lee, Linette E., Lloyd Hall, Microcosm, Morris, May, Reese, Lillie, Rothermel, Sadie P., Shriner, Emma E., Swigert, Laura M., Woodward, Julia B.
Omega Psi Sorority Becomes Chi Omega in 1907
Chi Omega in 1907

In 1907, the Omega Psi Sorority was adopted into the Delta Chapter of the Chi Omega Sorority. The Omega Psi Sorority was started in 1899 at Dickinson College.

Date: 1907
All terms: 1900-1909, Armstrong, Elizabeth, Bursk, Florence H., Carothers, Ethel, Chi Omega, Clark, Rachel, Emrick, Anna, Galley, Anna M., Greek life, Gruber, Margaret, Hertzler, Grace M., Hoch, Debbie, Leinbach, Magdalene, Leinbach, Mary, Microcosm, Morris, May, O'dea, Dolly G., Prouse, Ethel E., Reddig, Pearl M., Searight, Edith M., Shriner, Emma E., Sororities, Uhrich, Helen V., White, Cornelia B.
Female Faculty Wins Microcosm Dedication
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Long time contributor to the college, librarian, May Morris, earned the dedication of the 1939 edition of Dickinson’s Microcosm.  A woman who is praised as having contributed to the “advance and achievement of the college,” Morris helped to introduce to Dickinson’s library “a sufficiency of material and the efficiency of system unparalleled in its history.”

Date: 1939
All terms: 1930-1939, Microcosm, Morris, May
"Personals" - What Now? [Part 4]
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  • Lily Mault, class of 1895 (Law School) became the President of the Woodhaen Women's Republican Club.
  • Jessie Houck, class of 1901, married and become Mrs. N. H. Shaffer. She moved to Oak Lane.
  • Elizabeth M. Craighead, class of 1901, became a French teacher in a Worcester, MA High School.
  • Edith Super, class of 1902, married a Mr. Clifford Anderson. Both were from Bakersfield, California. They became the "happy parents" of David Byron.
Date: February 1924
All terms: 1920-1929, Alumni Magazine, Bowers, Jessie, Craighead, Elizabeth M., Employment, Filler, Grace, Fraternities, Garland, Mary, Hoffer, Elsie, Houck, Jessie, Kisner, Hazel, Marriage, Mault, Lily, Maust, Mary S., McIntire, Marjorie, Miller, Marcia, Morris, May, Morrison, Josephine, Nelson, Helene, Niesley, Ruth, O'Brien, Annie R., Pi Beta Phi, Roberts, Mary E., Rothermel, Sadie P., Schellinger, Elizabeth, Schellinger, Mary, Shaw, Esther Popel, Shenton, Jane D., Shuey, Anna M., Spears, Anna J., Strayer, Helen C., Super, Edith, Wagg, Ethel, Witmer, Helen L., Zimmerman, Geraldine