Entries drawn from the college history timeline
George F. Will, journalist and winner of the 1977 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary, addressed the College as part of its 1978 Commencement exercises. Will also received an honorary degree from the College.
Dickinson Council on Law and the Undergraduate sponsored a law seminar about choosing a law school in Holland Union Building siderooms. William L. Wilkes, dean of Dickinson School of Law, was the opening speaker. In addition, recent graduates were available for informal discussions about their...
Dickinson hosted U.S. Foreign Policy: The Times They Are A'Changin as the Public Affairs Symposium from February 11-14. The keynote address was "U.S. Foreign Policy in A Changin World" given by Geoffrey Barraclough a professor at Brandeis University. Other speakers included...
Hanna Holborb Gray, President of the University of Chicago, addressed the College as part of its 1979 Commencement exercises. Dr. Gray also received an honorary degree from the College.
Dr. Barry Commoner gave the keynote speech at the Public Affairs Symposium entitled "Energy and War" in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. Commoner's address largely focused on Afghanistan and humans reliance on nonrenewable fossil fuels.
Leonard Pitt, the artist in residence at Dickinson College, led a workshop about being a mime in Mathers Theater.
Dickinson hosted a joint Conference on Unofficial Art and Literary Censorship in the USSR on March 29th, 1980 in the Holland Union Building. St. Mary's College of Maryland, the Cremona Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European...
Gavin Eart, an English poet, read some of his own poems in Memorial Hall. Some of the poems that Eart read included "The Wreck of the Deutschland", "The Statements", and "Fiction: The House Party."
Dr. Lewis Thomas, President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, addressed the College as part of its 1980 Commencement exercises. Dr. Thomas also received an honorary degree from the College.
John George Kemeny, President of Dartmouth College from 1970-81, addressed Dickinson College as part of its 1981 Commencement exercises. Dr. Kemeny also received an honorary degree from Dickinson.
April 22, 1982, marked Dickinson's participation in Ground Zero Day, a nationwide event wherein 450 colleges and universities sponsored awareness of the potential threats and results of nuclear war. Ground Zero Week, which started Sunday, April 18th and led up to Ground Zero Day, was organized...
Colin Goetze Campbell, President of Wesleyan University from 1970-88, addressed Dickinson College as part of its 1982 Commencement exercises. Dr. Campbell also received an honorary degree from Dickinson.
Milton Lyons through the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellowship Program spent a week on campus. He lectured in various classes over the week. Lyons had spent more than thirty years in the theatrical field, and had produced over 125 musical productions. The purpose of his residency was to explain the...
Jorges Luis Borges was generally recognized as the greatest living poet, essayist, and short story writer in the spanish language. He visited Dickinson as part of a symposium entitled "Borges, the Poet." During the symposium, Borges discussed the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Hispanic literature,...
Sir Richard Attenborough, CBE, British actor, director, and film producer, addressed the College as part of its 1983 Commencement exercises. Attenborough...
Maurice Sendak, an author, illustrator and stage designer best known for his "childrens'" book Where the Wild Things Are, spoke during "The Art and Craft of the Book - A Celebration." symposium in the Weiss centre on September 29th, 1983. During the symposium, Sendak described his avid...
Dr. Frank Drake, a world renowned pioneer in the search for extra-terrestrial life, received the 1983 Glover Medal on Thursday, October 6th after delivering a lecture in ATS. Drake, who created "The Drake equation" to estimate the number of intelligent civilizations that exist in our universe,...
On Thursday, November 10th, 1983, the Enligh department sponsored a lecture by distinguished Irish critic Denis Donoghue. Donoghue, who holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University, presented a lecture entitled "The Presence of the Past in the 18th Century...
Paul Warnke, the former chief negotiator at the second Strategic Arms Limitation Talks delivered the keynote address to open the 1984 Public Affairs Symposium on Sunday, February 12th, 1984. In his address, Warnke discussed the past, present, and future of strategic arms negotiations between the...
Richard A. Davis, former Deputy Director of the Office of Strategic Nuclear Policy, U.S. Department of State, discussed Nuclear Arms Control in the Public Affairs Symposium on February 13, 1984. In his discussion, Davis outlined the then current United States policy regarding the Strategic Arms...
Yehuda Amichai, an Israeli poet, delivered a poetry reading in Memorial Hall. Amichai writes a diverse mix of poetry for children to poetry about love and war, including a piece titled "I Want to Die in Bed", describing a man who refuses to go to war, insisiting "I don't even care if I die alone...
Stephen Montague gave a lecture on twentieth-century music at 5:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall.
The Departments of Dramatic Arts, Music, Comparative Civilization and Religion presented Bharata Natyam dancer Viji Prakash in a lecture and concert in Rubendall Recital Hall at 5:00pm and 7:30pm, respectively.
Ellen Weaver, a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, gave a lecture in the new Women's Center on women in science and photosynthesis. Weaver, specializing in ocean photosynthesis, has performed research across the world, while advocating for increased participation of women in science despite "...
On Friday, April 20, 1984, Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisc.) spoke on issues of economics and foreign policy in the keynote address of Dickinson College's Mock Convention, held in the Kline center. In his address, Proxmire criticized President Reagan's deficit, which had risen from $56 billion...
