Dr. Kenneth L. Laws replaced Stanley Nodder Jr. as Assistant Dean of the College. After teaching physics at Dickinson for several years, Laws took on the administrative job in the hopes of helping students with academic problems.
A goodbye reception was held for the retiring Dr. Carmen Neuberger, Dean of Educational Services and Student Affairs. Dean Neuberger announced her plans to leave Dickinson at the beginning of the spring 1993 semester.
Dickinson grad Rev. James E. Skillington became the college's new pastor at Allison Church.
Ed Sweeney, the College's winningest head football coach, ended his eight-year tenure to pursue coaching at Colgate University.
The Northfield Summer Conference, which is made up of students from several universities and nationalities planned the World Students' Fellowship Campaign. In the wake of WWI, the purpose of the campaign is to "bind the students of the world in a league of mutual friendship and helpfulness." Part of this included raising $500,000 for work in underprivileged areas.
College President A. Lee Fritschler and Department of Safety and Security Director Sam McKelvey announce that Dickinson will hire temporary police during weekend hours and urge the Carlisle Police Department to patrol campus more frequently. The heightened security measures are the result of an abnormally high number of attacks on students—four in as many weeks.
Professors Henry W. A. Hanson and Noel Potter of the Geology Department led 14 students on a two-week trip to Alaska, leaving Carlisle on August 13, 1970. The students observed gold mining and glaciers while in Alaska.
Dr. Howard E. Figler assumed his duties as the new college counselor on July 1, 1970.
Stephen E. Markwood, former Assistant Dean of Student Life at Waynesburg College, assumed the position of Dean of Men at Dickinson on August 1, 1970.
The Board of Trustees elected Dr. Karl Tinsley Waugh, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences of UCLA, to be the next president of Dickinson College.
September 30 was proclaimed by President Banks to be "Pappy Hodge Day", in recognition of Paul "Pappy" Hodge, the longtime manager of the Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity house, who retired after 61 years in the position.
The executive committee of the board of trustees named Dr. James Henry Morgan, who had served as President from 1914 to 1928, to be the acting head of the college. The committee had originally planned to meet and nominate a temporary head while President Filler was ill; however, the day of the meeting, Filler passed away.
The YMCA and YWCA began their annual Dickinson in China Campaign to raise money to support a medical missionary working at the West China Union University in Chengtu, West China.