Students return the mermaid to President William Edel during the Homecoming football game in fall 1950.
President William W. Edel holds the Mermaid after Phi Kappa Psi brothers surrender it during Homecoming weekend in fall 1950.
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 cornerstone.
President William Edel '15 (center) and Honorary Degree recipients pose for a group photograph at Commencement on June 3, 1951.
The presentation of the college mace during a special convocation on October 13, 1951.
Left to right: Frank E. Masland, Jr. ('18), Herbert Wing, Jr., Ernest A. Vuilleumier, and President William W. Edel ('15).
Two men with the president's boat that the Kappa Sigma fraternity had stolen as a part of a prank for the Homecoming celebrations in November 1951. President William Edel (Class of 1915) is shaking hands with the student standing in the boat.
View of Adrian Ban Kwie Lauw-Zecha (far right) with his parents, brothers, and President William Edel. Lauw-Zecha is a member of the Class of 1952.
President William Wilcox Edel stands next to Sir Hugh Stott Taylor (left) as he receives the first ever Joseph Priestley Award on March 20, 1952 for his research and teaching in chemistry.
A group picture taken in Memorial Hall on the occasion of the Founders Day Convocation, May 1, 1952. This special Founders Day, in honor of Dickinson women, was held to celebrate the dedication of Drayer Hall, the first residence hall built by the college for the express purpose of housing women students.
Front Row, left to right: Edith Alice Ford, Marianne Craig Moore, William Wilcox Edel, and Millicent Todd Bingham.
Back Row, left to right: Vashti Burr Whittington, Cora L. Handwork (class of 1914), Ethel Wagg Selby (class of 1915), Josephine Brunyate Meredith (class of 1901), and Mary Love Collins (class of 1902)
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.
Trustee Frank Elmer Masland, Jr., a member of the Class of 1918, at an event in 1952.
Left to Right: Sir Robert Chance of Carlisle, England ; Pennsylvania Governor John S. Fine ; Mrs. Chance ; Frank Masland ; President William Edel
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) presents the football homecoming M.V.P trophy to Donald P. Bush Jr. (Class of 1954) in November 1953. Bush plays center and linebacker on the football team.
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.
Karl Taylor Compton receives the Priestley Award from President William Edel on April 22, 1954.
Far left: Chemistry Professor Ernest A. Vuilleumier ; Third from left: C. Scott Althouse
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 (carrying the mace), Boyd Lee Spahr ('00), President William Wilcox Edel ('15), Herbert Wing, Sam Witwer ('30), William F. Hutstader, Robert E. Woodside ('26), Sidney D. Kline ('24), Lewis Guy Rohrbaugh ('07), and Robert F. Rich ('07).
The front row from right to left is Goodrich Cook White, George Henry Ketterer ('08), Lewis Strauss, Janet A. Kelley ('24), Lewis H. Rohrbaugh ('07), and Sheridan Bell
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
Professor David I. Gleim carries the college mace as he leads the academic procession at a Commencement around 1955. President William Edel ('15) and Boyd Lee Spahr ('00) are directly behind Professor Gleim.
Tom Beckley, a member of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, receives his commission certificate from President William Edel during Commencement. The event is held in the Alumni Gymnasium on June 12, 1955.
A student receives her diploma from President William Edel ('15) in the Alumni Gymnasium during Commencement on June 12, 1955.
Honorary degree recipient Robert Calder Gates ('15) speaks with President William Edel (right) during Commencement on June 12, 1955.
Mary Elizabeth Keat is a member of the Class of 1956.
View of College Librarian May Morris (Class of 1909) with President William Wilcox Edel (Class of 1915) at an event in 1956. Morris retires as a librarian in 1956.
Dr. Edward Teller (second from left) receives the Priestley Award from President Edel (far left) on March 28, 1957 for his work in thermonuclear energy.
Second from right: National Cylinder Gas Company Vice President W. Roberts Wood, presenting cash grant.
Far right: Atomic Energy Commission chairman Lewis L. Strauss
View of Sumner Mathias Drayer (center) at the unveiling of his portrait, standing beside President William Wilcox Edel (Class of 1915).
Drayer is a prominent member of the Board of Trustees and was awarded a degree by appointment as a member of the Class of 1902.
