Entries drawn from the college history timeline
As part of the 1972 homecoming festivities, workshops and panel discussions explored the rights and responsibilities of women, the cost of growing up, and equality for women in higher education.
Dickinson College presented The Expanding Social Responsibility of Business as part of Dickinson's 200th anniversary celebration on February 2nd and 3rd. Some of the speakers at this Symposium included Dan W. Lufkin, Robert G. Dunlop, and Alice Tepper and the keynote speaker was Dan W...
As part of the 200th anniversary celebration Dickinson presented Science for Survival from March 7 to March 9. The keynote speaker was Dr. John G. Kemeny, the President of Dartmouth College. The Joseph Priestley Award was also presented during the symposium.
Robert E. Jones, M.D. delivered the annual Spahr Lecture and his speech was entitled "He Aimed Well: A Portrait of Benjamin Rush"
Dickinson presented the Civil Religion in America -- Manifest Destiny and Historical Judgment as part of Dickinson's 200th anniversary celebration from April 12 to 14, 1973. Some of the speakers included Robert N. Bellah, who was the keynote speaker, Timothy L. Smith, and James H....
University of Pennsylvania professor Loren C. Eiseley addressed the College as part of its 1973 Commencement exercises. Dr. Eiseley also received an honorary degree from the College.
Dickinson College Political Science Professor Milton Flower delivered the biannual Boyd Lee Spahr Lecture on November 1st at 8pm in the Morris Room of the Spahr library. Flower's topic was on the life and beliefs of John Dickinson.
The Public Affairs Symposium was held from February 14 to February 16, 1974 on the topic of Public Welfare and Selfish Interests. The keynote speaker was Tom C. Clark, Former Associate Supreme Court Justice, who gave his talk on "Law and Lawyers: Master or Servant of Society?" Other presenters...
The fourth Annual Black Arts Festival was held April 1st through 6th and the theme of the festival was "Shades of Blackness." Some of the activities included a workshop called "A Career in Foreign Service: For Whom and for What?, a art exhibit featuring the work of Bill Joyner and Kylis...
Judge Lisa A. Richette gave a talk on April 7, 1974 sponsored by The President's Commission of the Status of Women. Her talk was on "Our Equal Rights: More Equal than Equal Protection?"
William H. Goetzmann, director of American Civilization at the University of Texas, gave the James Henry Morgan Lecture on April 30, 1974 and May 2, 1974 in Memorial Hall. The first lecture was called "World Enough" and the second lecture was called "And Time."
John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV, President of West Virginia Wesleyan College and United States Senator from West Virginia, addressed the College as part of its 1974 Commencement exercises. Senator Rockefeller also received an honorary degree from the College.
Henry Steele Commager, historian and professor at Amherst College, addressed Dickinson College as part of its 1975 Commencement exercises. Dr. Commager also received an honorary degree from Dickinson.
Professor Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, from the University of Pennsylvania, presented her paper on "H.R. Storer and the Crazy Kangaroo" as part of the Sex Roles in Intellectual Life symposium.
James Spady gave a lecture on "The Black Man and World Civilizations" in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium at 8pm on December 2, 1975.
Dickinson hosted Human Destiny: Can It Be Controlled? as the Public Affairs Sympsium from February 8-11. The keynote speaker was "Limits to Growth" by Dennis Meadowsa professor of Business and Engineering at Dartmouth College.
Illinois Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III addressed the College as part of its 1976 Commencement exercises. Senator Stevenson also received an honorary degree from the College.
William Kunstler, a civil rights attorney, spoke at Dickinson's Dining Hall on January 27, 1977. He was the keynote speaker of the Pre-Law Society's First Annual Law Symposium and spoke about injustice in the American legal system.
Dr. John Coleman, President of Haverford College, was the keynote speaker of the 1977 Public Affairs Symposium. The symposium was on "The Sisyphus Syndrome: Work, Leisure, and Vocation." He discussed employment being important for both economic and psychological as well as his opinion that too...
Dr. Joanna Gillespie, a professor at Drew University, spoke in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium as part of the 1977 Public Affairs Symposium. The symposium was on "The Sisyphus Syndrome: Work, Leisure, and Vocation." She spoke about Americans conception of family, leisure, and sex and...
Charles Kuralt, a CBS news correspondent, spoke in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium as part of the 1977 Public Affairs Symposium. The symposium was on "The Sisyphus Syndrome: Work, Leisure, and Vocation." He spoke about his 10 years of traveling around America and what he had gained and lost...
Dr. Thomas Green, a Syracuse University professor, was the last speaker of the 1977 Public Affairs Symposium. The symposium was on "The Sisyphus Syndrome: Work, Leisure, and Vocation." He talked about the importance of liberal arts education and the moral elements that are needed in government...
Thomas Venclova, a Lithuanian nationalist, spoke in Memorial Hall about human rights and Lithuanian independence movement.
George Alexander Heard, Chancellor at Vanderbilt University, addressed the College as part of its 1977 Commencement exercises. Dr. Heard also received an honorary degree from the College.
Donald Bogle delivered a lecture and slide presentation titled "An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films" in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium during the Congress of African Students' annual Black Arts Festival.
