Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, President of Notre Dame University from 1952-87, received an honorary degree as part of the College's 1977 Commencement exercises.
Commencement exercises for the 1976-77 academic year were held in front of Old West.
Chemist and Harvard professor Edgar Bright Wilson received an honorary degree as part of the College's 1976 Commencement exercises.
Philosopher Brand Blanshard received an honorary degree as part of the College's 1976 Commencement exercises.
Commencement exercises for the 1975-76 academic year were held in front of Old West.
Kendra Kolpeke, Writer-in-Residence at the University of Baltimore, reads her poem "Striding Across the Diagonal" at the inauguration of President William G. Durden.
Lester Russell Brown, environmentalist and founder of the Worldwatch and Earth Policy Institutes, received an honorary degree as part of the College's 1975 Commencement exercises.
Architect Paolo Soleri received an honorary degree as part of the College's 1975 Commencement exercises.
Dr. William G. Durden is inaugurated as the 27th president of Dickinson on the John Dickinson campus after an academic procession starting at the Waidner-Spahr Library.
Physicist Chien-Siung Wu received an honorary degree as part of the College's 1975 Commencement exercises.
Dr. A. Lee Fritschler, who was appointed president of Dickinson College in April of 1987 and began his duties on July 1st, became the official twenty-sixth president of the College on October 17th, 1987. The ceremony took place on Homecoming Weekend. The inauguration began on the Academic Quad on the John Dickinson campus in front of Old West at 10:30 am and was followed by a speech made by Paul Sarbanes, the United States Senator from Maryland, as well as a speech made by newly appointed President Fritschler. A buffet luncheon concluded the ceremony in the Holland Union Building.
Commencement exercises for the 1974-75 academic year were held in front of Old West.
Dr. Samuel Alston Banks is inaugurated as the 25th president of Dickinson College.
Commencement exercises for the 1993-94 academic year were held in front of Old West.
Commencement exercises for the 1992-93 academic year were held in front of Old West.
Commencement exercises for the 1991-92 academic year were held in front of Old West.
Victor E. Ferrall, Jr., lawyer and President of Beloit College from 1991-2000, addressed Dickinson College as part of the 1991 Commencement exercises. Dickinson also awarded Dr. Ferrall an honorary degree.
Commencement exercises for the 1990-91 academic year were held in front of Old West.
Commencement exercises for the 1989-90 academic year were held in front of Old West.
Vartan Gregorian, President of Brown University from 1989-97, addressed the College as part of the 1989 Commencement exercises. Dr. Gregorian also received an honorary degree from the College.
Commencement exercises for the 1988-89 academic year were held in front of Old West.
Commencement exercises for the 1987-88 academic year were held in front of Old West.
Commencement exercises for the 1986-87 academic year were held in front of Old West.
Author and political activist Ralph Nader received an honorary degree as part of the College's 1986 Commencement exercises.