Alumni

View of President Howard L. Rubendall around 1975.

Mortimer Charles Seller Jr., a member of the Class of 1955, is Executive Assistant to the Dickinson College President.

Clarence Sylvester Shenk is a member of the Class of 1939.

Trustee John S. Snyder is a member of the Class of 1933.

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.

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.

Dean Philip Van Hook is awarded the "Certificate of Distinguished Citizenship" by Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel. Robert J. Brill, from the State Board for Community Colleges, presents Dean Van Hook with the award on May 15, 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.

Five members of the Class of 1916 pose on the steps of the HUB at their Sixtieth Reunion.

Former President Howard Rubendall and his wife, Carolyn, sit outside in 1976.

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.

Trustee Samuel Weiler Witwer, a member of the Class of 1930, speaks at Commencement on May 15, 1977.

Seven alumni from the Class of 1917 return to Dickinson to celebrate their Sixtieth Reunion.

William David Reese is a member of the Class of 1939. He likely provided this photo to the college in the months before his induction into the Dickinson Sports Hall of Fame in February 1978.

Ruth Raiford, a member of the Class of 1924, at work.

View of Frederick "Fred" Charley (Class of 1938) and his wife Lib Charley at the Great Wall of China on August 25, 1978.

Joseph Schiffman, Professor of English and American Studies, gives a lecture to a packed classroom of alumni during Alumni College in 1979.

Members of the Class of 1934 get ready for reunion activities by donning their dinks.

View of the Kline Center groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, May 18, 1979.

This photo features President Banks, outgoing President of the Board of Trustees Samuel W. Witwer ('30), as well as Chairman of the Special Planning Committee and incoming President of the Board of Trustees William S. Masland.

Trustee Samuel Weiler Witwer, a member of the Class of 1930, wears a construction hat at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Kline Center on May 18, 1979.

Trustee Samuel Weiler Witwer, a member of the Class of 1930, speaks at the Kline Center groundbreaking ceremony on May 18, 1979.

Trustee Samuel Weiler Witwer, a member of the Class of 1930, at Commencement on May 20, 1979 with librarian Yates Forbis (center) and former President Howard Rubendall (left).

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.