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.
A group of students sit during Commencement exercises on May 23, 1971.
Professor Howard Long presents President Howard Rubendall ('31) with a plaque at Commencement on May 23, 1971.
View of the academic procession at Commencement on May 21, 1972. English Professor Robert Bowden is holding the flag and Philosophy Professor Frederick Ferre is the macebearer. President Howard Lane Rubendall ('31) is standing behind Dr. Ferre.
Jacob Javits deliverers the Commencement address on May 21, 1972. Javits also receives an honorary Doctor of Laws.
Burrhus Frederick Skinner, an honorary degree recipient, sits during Commencement on May 21, 1972.
The honorary degree recipients and their sponsors at Commencement on May 20, 1973.
The sponsors are standing from left to right are Dan Bechtel, Frederick Ferre, Dorothy Culp, Ed Hanner, and Priscilla Laws.
Seated from left to right: John Brooke Mosley, Jr., Leonard Woodcock, Matina Horner, President Howard Rubendall ('31), Frederick W. Ness ('33), and Loren Eiseley. All except President Rubendall are honorary degree recipients.
Matina Horner receives an honorary Doctor of Laws from President Howard Rubendall ('31) at Commencement on May 20, 1973. Horner's faculty sponsor, English Professor Dorothy Culp (center), looks on.
Philosophy Professor Frederick Ferré holds the Mace during Commencement on June 2, 1974. President Howard Rubendall is behind Professor Ferré.
View as Music Professor Fred C. Petty conducts at Commencement on June 2, 1974.
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.
A group of faculty sit during Commencement on June 1, 1979. English Professor Dororthy Culp is in the front row on the far right.
Robert Payne ('77) sits in the orchestra at Commencement on June 1, 1975.
Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu shakes President Howard Rubendall's hand as she receives an honorary Doctor of Science during Commencement on June 1, 1975.
Biology Professor Barbara McDonald is standing behind Dr. Wu.
President Samuel Banks stands at the podium at Commencement on May 16, 1976.
United States Senator Adlai Stevenson III (center) receives an honorary Doctor of Laws from President Banks while trustee Samuel Witwer ('30) looks on at Commencement on May 16, 1976.
Classical Studies professor Leon Fitts, on right, greets Professor Joseph Schiffman of the English department at Commencement in 1977, while Fitts' wife, Mary, looks on.
Father Theodore Hesburgh (left), who receives an honorary Doctor of Sacred Theology, walks with Trustee Samuel Witwer (Class of 1930) in the academic procession at Commencement on May 15, 1977.
Religion Professor Dan Bechtel, wearing sunglasses, is behind Witwer.
Father Theodore Hesburgh, who receives an honorary Doctor of Sacred Theology, prays during Commencement on May 15, 1977.
Trustee Samuel Weiler Witwer, a member of the Class of 1930, speaks at Commencement on May 15, 1977.
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.
Hanna Gray, who receives a honorary Doctor of Laws, stands with trustee Samuel Witwer (Class of 1930) and President Samuel Banks at Commencement on May 20, 1979.
Three men carry out the diplomas before Commencement on May 20, 1979.
Dickinson College staff take folding chairs out of Bosler Hall on May 20, 1979 in preparation for Commencement.
