Glenn T. Seaborg, recipient of the 1951 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements and Chancellor of the University of California, is presented the 1960 Priestley Award. At the ceremony, Seaborg gave an address titled "The New...

The Phi Kappa Psi received the Interfraternity Council (IFC) Scholarship Award during Chapel in Bosler Hall on March 9, 1961. The award was presented to the fraternity that had the greatest academic improvement.

During the Spring Formal intermission on April 14, the Skull and Key honorary society for junior men tapped ten sophomores as new members. In addition, the Black Hats selected Gus Bird as the recipient of their annual award that recognized the most outstanding man in the freshman class. Bird was...

On the evening of Friday November, 10, 1961, Richard H. McAndrews was honored by hundreds of his former athletes in a testimonial dinner presented by the Dickinson "D" Club. "Mac" was dedicated to Dickinson athletics for 51 years. Starting in 1911 as a football trainer, he worked his way to...

Chemist Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer, President of Rice University, was presented the 1963 Priestley Award. At the ceremony, Pitzer gave an address titled "False Impossibilities."

Physicist Isadore I. Rabi, Higgins Professor of Physics at Columbia University and 1944 Nobel Laureate in Physics, was awarded the 1964 Priestley Award. At the ceremony, Dr. Rabi gave an address titled "Science and Human Goals."

Charles H. Townes, Provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and recipient of the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on lasers, was presented the 1966 Priestley Award. At the ceremony, Dr. Townes gave an address titled "Lasers - A Research Case History."

George W. Beadle, President of the University of Chicago and recipient of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Medicine, was presented the 1967 Priestley Award. At the ceremony Dr. Beadle gave an address titled "Genetics and Cultural Evolution".

Marshall W. Nirenberg, Chief of the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics at the National Heart Institute, was presented the 1968 Priestley Award, just months before receiving the Nobel Prize in Medicine that same year. At the ceremony, Dr. Nirenberg gave an address titled "Genes, Neurons, and...

Linus C. Pauling, Research Associate at the California Institute of Technology, staff member of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and recipient of both the Nobel Prize in chemistry and the Nobel Peace Prize, was presented the 1969 Priestley Award. At the ceremony, Dr. Pauling...

Composer John Cage was presented the 1970 Arts award. A concert of several works by Cage was performed the previous evening.