President Howard Rubendall ('31) stands behind the macebearer with other faculty members during the academic procession at Commencement on June 1, 1975.

Henry Steele Commager, a History Professor at Amherst College, is standing next to Rubendall. Commager delivers the Commencement address...

British poet W. H. Auden receives the 1968 Arts Award from President Howard Rubendall (Class of 1931) on March 5, 1968.

Artist Leonard Baskin (center), the 1963 Arts Award recipient, talks with Dickinson College President Howard Rubendall (left).

Whitfield J. Bell, a member of the Class of 1935, receives an Honorary Doctor of Laws from President Rubendall at Commencement on June 7, 1964.

Left to Right: Trustee Roy Kuebler, Dr. Bell, President Rubendall

Composer John Cage receives the Arts Award from President Howard Rubendall in 1970.

View as students receive their diplomas during Commencement on June 3, 1962.

A Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) cadet shakes President Howard Rubendall's (Class of 1931) hand during Commencement on June 3, 1962.

President Howard L. Rubendall '31 (left) talks with Honorary degree recipient Rolland L. Adams '27 and Professor Richard H. Wanner (left) during Commencement on June 5, 1966.

Students walk down the steps of Old West at Commencement on June 4, 1967. 

This occasion marks the first time that students walk down the steps of Old West during Commencement.

A group photo at Commencement on May 25, 1969 of Honorary degree recipient Betsy Talbot Blackwell, President Howard Lane Rubendall ('31), and Yale University President Kingman Brewster (far right).

A student walks out of Old West and receives their diploma during Commencement on May 23, 1971.

President Howard Rubendall is standing with other faculty on left and is closest to the audience.

President of the Board of Trustees Samuel Weiler Witwer (Class of 1930) and President Samuel Banks (right) present former President Howard Rubendall with a special award at Commencement on May 20, 1979.