Kingman Brewster, Jr., President of Yale University from 1963-77, addressed the College as part of its 1969 Commencement exercises. Dr. Brewster also received an honorary degree from the College.
Journalist James Barrett Reston addressed the College as part of its 1968 Commencement exercises. Mr. Reston also received an honorary degree from the College.
James R. Shepley, journalist and CEO of Time Inc., addressed the College as part of its 1967 Commencement exercises.
Scholar and diplomat John Stothoff Badeau addressed the College as part of its 1966 Commencement exercises. Dr. Stothoff also received an honorary degree from the College.
Dickinson hosted a joint Conference on Unofficial Art and Literary Censorship in the USSR on March 29th, 1980 in the Holland Union Building. St.
Isidor Isaac Rabi, nuclear physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, addressed the College as part of its 1985 Commencement exercises. Dr. Rabi also received an honorary degree from the College.
Paul Martin Simon, Illinois Congressman from 1973-85 and Senator from 1985-97, addressed the College as part of its 1984 Commencement exercises. Rep. Simon also received an honorary degree from the College.
Sir Richard Attenborough, CBE, British actor, director, and film producer, addressed the College as part of its 1983 Commencement exercises. Attenborough also received an honorary degree from the College.
Colin Goetze Campbell, President of Wesleyan University from 1970-88, addressed Dickinson College as part of its 1982 Commencement exercises. Dr. Campbell also received an honorary degree from Dickinson.
John George Kemeny, President of Dartmouth College from 1970-81, addressed Dickinson College as part of its 1981 Commencement exercises. Dr. Kemeny also received an honorary degree from Dickinson.
On Saturday, September 26th, 1998, Dr. Christopher Pelling, Fellow and Praelector in Classics at University College, Oxford, gave the inaugural Christopher Roberts Lecture. The title of his lecture was "Causes, Scientific and Other: Hippocrates and Historians".
In a mid-year convocation ceremony, the college celebrated its relationship with Bremen University in Germany. Jurgen Timm, Rector of Bremen University, gave an address and was awarded an honorary degree as Doctor of Science by the college. Timm has published in the fields of mathematics, biometry, and bio-statistics and has studied mathematics, physics, pedagogy, and philosophy.
Dr. Lewis Thomas, President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, addressed the College as part of its 1980 Commencement exercises. Dr. Thomas also received an honorary degree from the College.
Hanna Holborb Gray, President of the University of Chicago, addressed the College as part of its 1979 Commencement exercises. Dr. Gray also received an honorary degree from the College.
George F. Will, journalist and winner of the 1977 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary, addressed the College as part of its 1978 Commencement exercises. Will also received an honorary degree from the College.
George Alexander Heard, Chancellor at Vanderbilt University, addressed the College as part of its 1977 Commencement exercises. Dr. Heard also received an honorary degree from the College.
Illinois Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III addressed the College as part of its 1976 Commencement exercises. Senator Stevenson also received an honorary degree from the College.
Henry Steele Commager, historian and professor at Amherst College, addressed Dickinson College as part of its 1975 Commencement exercises. Dr. Commager also received an honorary degree from Dickinson.
Sarah Kemp Brady, Chairperson of Handgun Control, Inc. and the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, addressed the College as part of its 1994 Commencement exercises. Ms. Brady also received an honorary degree from the College.
Seamus Heaney, poet and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, addressed the College as part of its 1993 Commencement exercises. Heaney also received an honorary degree from the College.
Ann Woodruff Compton, ABC News White House Correspondent, addressed the College as part of the 1992 Commencement exercises. Ms. Compton also received an honorary degree from the College.
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.
Economist and journalist Leonard Solomon Silk addressed the College as part of the 1988 Commencement exercises. Mr. Silk also received an honorary degree from the College.
Martha E. Church, President of Hood College from 1975-95, addressed Dickinson College as part of its 1987 Commencement exercises. Dr. Church also received an honorary degree from the College.