Dr. Paul Rufus Burkholder '24 (center) receives the Priestley Award on March 10, 1953. 

Left: President Edel.  Right: John Watson Pedlow (Class of 1929 and Trustee)

President William Edel (Class of 1915) and Vice President Gilbert Malcolm (Class of 1915) stand in the Class of 1915 Gateway with the President's House in the background.

Left to Right: Malcolm ; Edel

A group of alumni, faculty, trustees, and honorary degree recipients stand on the porch of Drayer Hall on June 13, 1954. Trickett Hall, as well as several other Dickinson School of Law buildings, are visible in the background.

The back row from right to left is Ernest Vuilleumier (...

Priestley Award recipient Karl T. Compton (third from left) poses with Professor Vuilleumier (second from left) and President Edel (far right) next to Priestley's burning glass on April 22, 1954.

President William W. Edel, History Professor Whitfield J. Bell Jr. ('35), Superintendent of grounds and buildings George Shuman Jr. ('37), and acting Dean of Women Mary M. Kellogg at the cornerstone laying ceremony for Drayer Hall on March 8, 1951. They were placing a time capsule into the...

View as President William Edel (Class of 1915) holds the Mermaid and the Little Brown Bucket at the Homecoming football game against Gettysburg College at Biddle field in November 1950.

Boyd Lee Spahr ('00), President of the Board of Trustees, shakes hands with William Wilcox Edel '15 (right) on President Edel's Inauguration Day on October 26, 1946.

William Wilcox Edel was a member of the Class of 1915 and College President from 1946 to 1959. In the photograph Edel is with his second wife, Joscelyne.

Education professor Edgar Finck, left, with College president William Edel standing next to the chair presented to Finck upon his being awarded the Henry Ford Chair of Education, in February 1958.

President William Edel (class of 1915) awards an honorary degree to Ethel Wagg Selby (class of 1915) during the Founders Day Convocation ceremony in Bosler Hall on May 1, 1952.

Honorary degree recipient Marianne Craig Moore is the third person sitting from the left.

Arts Award recipient Robert Frost takes a tour of the campus with Dean of the College Frederic Ness (Class of 1933) (left) and College President William Edel (right) in May 1959.