Presidents

View of President Howard L. Rubendall around 1970.

President Howard L. Rubendall talks with a group of students around 1970.

View as President Howard L. Rubendall and his wife, Carolyn, greet new students around 1970.

View of President Howard Rubendall and two students outside Spahr Library around 1970. Judy La Barre, a member of the Class of 1973, is one of the students.

President Howard L. Rubendall, a member of the Class of 1931, around 1970.

President Howard L. Rubendall holds a replica of the mermaid, crafted in the late 1960s, on a stage on Biddle field around 1970.

President Rubendall talks with Music Professor Fred Petty (right) and another faculty member around 1970.

President Howard L. Rubendall, a member of the Class of 1931, stands next to a student at an event in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium around 1970.

President Howard L. Rubendall, a member of the Class of 1931, at an event in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium around 1970.

President Howard L. Rubendall, a member of the Class of 1931, stands on the steps of Old West with a group of students. Two students are members of Wheel & Chain. 

Honorary degree recipients and their sponsors pose for a group photograph during Commencement on May 24, 1970.

Standing from Left to Right: Professor Joseph Schiffman, Professor Horace Rogers ('24), Professor Paul Kaylor, Professor William Dornemann, and Professor Dan Bechtel.

Seated from Left to Right: Jay S. Redding, Samuel W. Witwer ('30), Tom Grey Wicker, President Howard Lane Rubendall ('31), William Stringfellow, and Nelson Glueck.

President Howard Rubendall ('31) presents William Stringfellow with an honorary degree at Commencement on May 24, 1970. Professor William Dornemann is standing behind Stringfellow.

President Howard Rubendall ('31) talks with a senior, Martha L. Purvis ('71), and two professors on the steps of Old West at Convocation on September 9, 1970.

Margaret Mead receives the Priestley Award from President Rubendall on March 9, 1971.

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.

Professor Howard Long presents President Howard Rubendall ('31) with a plaque at Commencement on May 23, 1971.

President Howard Lane Rubendall presents George C. Pimentel (left) with the Priestley Award on March 30, 1972.

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.

President Rubendall talks with several faculty members at the Curriculum Report meeting in 1973.

Left to Right: Professors William Bowden, Richard Wanner, Truman C. Bullard, and President Howard Rubendall

View of President Rubendall (left) and Charles Coleman Sellers (right) at an event in 1973. The man in the middle is holding a copy of Sellers' Dickinson College: A History, which is published in 1973.

WDCV DJs on air with President Howard Lane Rubendall ('31) in 1973.

WDCV Faculty advisor and philosophy professor Cyril Dwiggins is in the foreground, pointing at the console.

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.