Priestley Day

Joseph Priestley Day and the Priestley Award are created. Student demonstration results in student-faculty-administration meeting that determines to improve the class dean system and create a student-faculty committee to make recommendations on cultural activities. International Relations Club holds auction to benefit tuberculosis sanitarium near Tokyo. Profile of Professor Horace E. Rogers. Basketball season ends with no Dickinson wins.

Annual Priestley Day discussed. Musicians Anton Kuerti and Michael Tree to perform. President Howard Rubendall praises Dickinson Endowment Fund. Speaker H. L. Buurman of the Information Service of South Africa defends apartheid. Henry Steele Commager and William T.R. Fox to speak. Dr. Donald Gordon awarded grant. Louise Broujos begins teaching English at Dickinson. Food service Slater announces innovations for upcoming school year. Students debate Sino-American relations. Dave Waight leads in wrestling championship. Wrestler Joe Icenhower highlighted.

The Action party wins Student Senate race, following large voter turnout. Pan Hellenic council to hold Doll Dance. Professor Paul Smith announces resignation. Follies slated to begin run. Its preview gets poor review. Educational Psychology class experiments with practicum approach. Priestley Day is celebrated. Anti-Defamation League conducts human relations study. WAF recruiting female officers. The Union Philosophical Society favors Nixon in November's election. Petition supporting ban of book tax is circulated. The Cultural Affairs Committee presents the Julliard String Quartet.