All Items 42 Collection 1 Archives & Special Collections 42 Contributor 20 Amherst College 42 Ward, John William, 1922-1985 13 Gerhard, Jim, 1942-1971 10 Cryan, James U., Jr. 6 Kingman, Bob (Robert Edwin), 1950-2019 6 Amherst College. Class of 1968 5 Rosser, William J. 5 Amherst College. Class of 1973 4 Ward, Barbara Carnes 3 Amherst College. Class of 1966 2 Amherst College. Class of 1974 2 Cooney, Gabriel (Photographer) 2 Gerety, Tom 2 Gibbs, Julian H. 2 Plimpton, Calvin Hastings, 1918-2007 2 Pouncey, Peter R. 2 Witkowski, Don 2 Abe, Shin 1 Amherst College. Class of 1965 1 Amherst College. Class of 1967 1 show more 15 show fewer Location 2 Massachusetts 33 Amherst 32 Topic 20 Photographs 42 Presidents 42 Faculty 30 Students 29 Commencement ceremonies 18 Academic rites and ceremonies 6 Alumni and alumnae 6 College presidents 3 Protest movements 3 Student protestors 3 Vietnam War, 1961-1975 3 Reunions 2 Academic rites and rituals 1 African American college students 1 American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976 1 Baseball 1 Baseball players 1 Classroom environment 1 College student parents 1 Gardens, Japanese 1 show more 15 show fewer Part Of 1 Amherst College Photographer Records 42 Genre 2 Photographs 42 Portraits 1 Subject 20 Amherst College – Presidents – Photographs 42 Amherst College – Photographs 40 Amherst College – Faculty – Photographs 29 Amherst College – Students – Photographs 29 Commencement ceremonies – Massachusetts – Amherst – Photographs 18 Ward, John William, 1922-1985 – Photographs 13 Academic rites and ceremonies – Massachusetts – Amherst – Photographs 6 Amherst College – Alumni and alumnae – Photographs 6 Amherst College. Class of 1968 – Photographs 5 Amherst College. Class of 1973 – Photographs 4 College presidents – Massachusetts – Amherst – Photographs 3 Ward, Barbara Carnes – Photographs 3 Amherst College. Class of 1966 – Photographs 2 Amherst College. Class of 1974 – Photographs 2 Gerety, Tom – Photographs 2 Gibbs, Julian H. – Photographs 2 Plimpton, Calvin Hastings, 1918-2007 – Photographs 2 Pouncey, Peter R. – Photographs 2 Reunions – Massachusetts – Amherst – Photographs 2 Student protestors – Massachusetts – Amherst – Photographs 2 show more 15 show fewer Photographs of Baccalaureate, 1975 June 5 Kingman, Bob (Robert Edwin), 1950-2019 Photographs of the Baccalaureate Service held in Johnson Chapel during the 154th Commencement Weekend. Photographed are seniors and guests in attendance, the Glee Club performing from the balcony, and speakers John William Ward, Thomas W. Thaler (Tom), and Reverend James H. Clark. These photographs are assumed to have been taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs (now the Office of Communications). Bob Kingman was the College Photographer from January 1975-May 1978. Photographs of Baccalaureate, 1975 June 5 Photographs of the 155th Commencement ceremony, 1976 June 6 Kingman, Bob (Robert Edwin), 1950-2019 Photographs of the 155th Commencement ceremony, which took place on the front steps of the Robert Frost Library with attendees seated in the Main Quadrangle (also known as the first-year quad). Photographed are students, faculty, and honorary degree awardees in academic regalia; guests; the ceremony marshals; and the processions. Commencement speaker Adrian Spratt and college president John William Ward are among those photographed. These photographs are assumed to have been taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs (now the Office of Communications). Bob Kingman was the College Photographer from January 1975-May 1978. Photographs of the 155th Commencement ceremony, 1976 June 6 Photographs of honorary degree awardees, 1976 June 6 Kingman, Bob (Robert Edwin), 1950-2019 Photographs of the honorary degree awards presentation portion of the 155th Commencement ceremony, which took place on the front steps of the Robert Frost Library. Also included are group portraits of the honorees sitting with the college president. Individuals photographed include John William Ward, William Thaddeus Coleman Jr., William Richard Park, Stansfield Turner, Leonard Woodcock, Jill Ker Conway, Robert O. Anthony, Thomas Irwin Emerson, Robert Ross Holloway, and John P. Kendall. These photographs are assumed to have been taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs (now the Office of Communications). Bob Kingman was the College Photographer from January 1975-May 1978. Photographs of honorary degree awardees, 1976 June 6 Photographs of Amherst Holiday, 1976 June 9-11 Kingman, Bob (Robert Edwin), 1950-2019 Photographs of Amherst Holiday, 1976. Photographs show presentations by college president John W. Ward and six professors, and images of alumni and families gathered outdoors for the Alumni Luncheon. These photographs are assumed to have been taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs (now the Office of Communications). Bob Kingman was the College Photographer from January 1975-May 1978. Photographs of Amherst Holiday, 1976 June 9-11 Photographs of the 149th Commencement Weekend, 1970 June 4-6 Gerhard, Jim, 1942-1971 Photographs of events related to the 149th Commencement: President and Mrs. Plimpton’s Reception for Seniors and their family members held at the President’s House; the Senior Class Exercises, which took place in front of the Robert Frost Library with speaker William M. Kuntsler; and discussion groups of parents and seniors focused on the Student Strike of 1970, which took place in Chapin Hall and in Porter Lounge of Converse Hall; and a luncheon in Valentine Hall. Photographs of the Commencement ceremony held in Coolidge Cage of the Alumni Gymnasium and Athletic Complex show students, faculty, and honorary degree awardees in academic regalia. The honorary degree recipients are shown posing with Calvin Hastings Plimpton. Also included are portraits of recipients that were taken in May 1970. Honorary degree awardees were Stephen C. Kleene, Ian L. McHarg, Paul A. Raushenbush, I.F. Stone, Senator Thomas F. Eagleton, Stephen Grant, Luis A. Ferré, Franklin K. Patterson, and John C. Esty. Some photographs were taken by Robert Cornigans and others are presumed to have been taken by the Jim Gerhard who was the College Photographer from the mid-1960s to 1971. Photographs of the 149th Commencement Weekend, 1970 June 4-6 Photographs of the 148th Commencement Weekend, 1969 June 5-6 Gerhard, Jim, 1942-1971 Black and white photographs of the 148th Commencement Weekend held June 5-6, 1969, including Senior Exercises, Senior Service, Senior Meeting, Commencement ceremony and honorary degree presentations. Individuals photographed may include Dr. Robert Coles, Calvin Hastings Plimpton, Dr. Kenneth Clark, Larry Dilg, Jeffrey Abramson, Bishop Corrigan, Bruce Morgan, and Marshall Baird. The Senior Exercises are photographed on the steps of Robert Frost Library. Photographed are students, faculty, and honorary degree awardees in academic regalia, the ceremony marshals, and members of the audience. The Commencement Ceremony takes place in the Alumni Gymnasium and Athletic Complex Quadrangle. These photographs are assumed to have been taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs (now the Office of Communications). Jim Gerhard was the College Photographer from the mid-1960s to 1971. Photographs of the 148th Commencement Weekend, 1969 June 5-6 Photographs of the 147th Commencement ceremony, 1968 June 7 Gerhard, Jim, 1942-1971 Photographs of the 147th Commencement ceremony. Photographed are several awardees in academic regalia receiving their honorary degrees from Calvin Hastings Plimpton. Individuals photographed may include Robert Jackson McKean, Jr., James Ingram Merrill, Carl Willis Andrews, Jr., Mac Vincent Edds, Jr., George Wald, Edwin Deacon Etherington, Sol Myron Linowitz, Robert Lacey Stevens, and Albert Nathaniel Whiting, all of whom were honorary degree awardees. These photographs are assumed to have been taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs (now the Office of Communications). Jim Gerhard was the College Photographer from the mid-1960s to 1971. Photographs of the 147th Commencement ceremony, 1968 June 7 Photographs of the 147th Commencement ceremony, 1968 June 7 Gerhard, Jim, 1942-1971 Photographs of the 147th Commencement ceremony. In addition to seated graduating students in academic regalia, those photographed include several Magna Cum Laude students receiving their diplomas from Calvin Hastings Plimpton. These photographs are assumed to have been taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs (now the Office of Communications). Jim Gerhard was the College Photographer from the mid-1960s to 1971. Photographs of the 147th Commencement ceremony, 1968 June 7 Photographs of the 147th Commencement ceremony, 1968 June 7 Gerhard, Jim, 1942-1971 Photographs of the 147th Commencement ceremony. Photographed are students, faculty, and honorary degree awardees in academic regalia, the ceremony marshals, and members of the audience. The ceremony takes place in the Alumni Gymnasium and Athletic Complex Quadrangle. Individuals photographed include Calvin Hastings Plimpton, John F. Boyle, Daniel Chester Cochran, Sol Myron Linowitz, and Robert A. Eaton. These photographs are assumed to have been taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs (now the Office of Communications). Jim Gerhard was the College Photographer from the mid-1960s to 1971. Photographs of the 147th Commencement ceremony, 1968 June 7 Photographs of Senior Class Exercises and honorary degree awardees, 1968 June 6 and June 7 Gerhard, Jim, 1942-1971 Photographs of the Senior Class Exercises portion of the 147th Commencement Weekend and of honorary degree awardees in academic regalia posing with Calvin Hastings Plimpton. Individuals photographed may include Robert Jackson McKean, Jr., James Ingram Merrill, Carl Willis Andrews, Jr., Mac Vincent Edds, Jr., George Wald, Edwin Deacon Etherington, Sol Myron Linowitz, Robert Lacey Stevens, Albert Nathaniel Whiting, Robert A. Eaton, and Luther Hilton Foster, Jr. The Senior Exercises are photographed on the steps of Robert Frost Library. These photographs are assumed to have been taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs (now the Office of Communications). Jim Gerhard was the College Photographer from the mid-1960s to 1971. Photographs of Senior Class Exercises and honorary degree awardees, 1968 June 6 and June 7 Photographs of Baccalaureate and Senior Class Exercises, 1968 June 6 Gerhard, Jim, 1942-1971 Photographs of events related to the 147th Commencement Weekend: the Baccalaureate Service in Johnson Chapel and the Senior Class Exercises on the steps of Robert Frost Library. Photographed are Calvin Hastings Plimpton, Christopher N. Brown, and other faculty, students, and attendees. Lewis S. Mudge may also be among those photographed. In several images, students and faculty are in academic regalia. These photographs are assumed to have been taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs (now the Office of Communications). Jim Gerhard was the College Photographer from the mid-1960s to 1971. Photographs of Baccalaureate and Senior Class Exercises, 1968 June 6 Photographs of Convocation, 1967 September 12 Gerhard, Jim, 1942-1971 Photographs of Opening Convocation in Johnson Chapel. Photographed are Calvin Hastings Plimpton and other faculty in academic regalia. These photographs are assumed to have been taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs (now the Office of Communications). Jim Gerhard was the College Photographer from the mid-1960s to 1971. Photographs of Convocation, 1967 September 12 Photographs of 146th Commencement ceremony, 1967 June 2 Gerhard, Jim, 1942-1971 Photographs of the 146th Commencement ceremony held on June 2, 1967. Photographed are John F. Boyle, Calvin Hastings Plimpton, honorary degree awardee Andrew Wyeth, student John Anderson, speaker and honorary degree awardee Kingman Brewster, Jr., "LeFrak's car" (likely student Richard S. LeFrak), student Terry Ellen and his family, other honorary degree awardees, attendees, and camera operators. Other individuals photographed may include Edward Bradley, Prosser Gifford, and Robert Whitney. Also included is one image of a baseball game. These photographs are assumed to have been taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs (now the Office of Communications). Jim Gerhard was the College Photographer from the mid-1960s to 1971. Photographs of 146th Commencement ceremony, 1967 June 2 Photographs of Convocation, 1966 September 13 Gerhard, Jim, 1942-1971 Photographs of the Opening Convocation in Johnson Chapel held on September 13, 1966. Photographed are the College President, honorary degree awardees, attendees, and a police officer. Individuals photographed may include Hugh G. J. Aitken, John B. Halsted, William M. Hexter, James E. Ostendarp, Donald S. Pitkin, Calvin Hastings Plimpton, and Robert Whitney. These photographs are assumed to have been taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs (now the Office of Communications). The name of the photographer is unknown. Photographs of Convocation, 1966 September 13 Photographs of 145th Commencement weekend events, related protest, and George Bain's retirement party, 1966 June Witkowski, Don Photographs of the 145th Commencement ceremony held on June 3, 1966. Photographed are students, faculty, and honorary degree awardees in academic regalia, the ceremony marshals, and members of the audience. The ceremony takes place in the Alumni Gymnasium and Athletic Complex Quadrangle. Included are photographs of anti-Vietnam War protestors at the ceremony holding signs in promotion of peace and against Robert Strange McNamara, an honorary degree awardee at the ceremony. Also included are photographs of the retirement party held for Professor George W. Bain and other Commencement weekend events. These may include the Amherst Collegium Musicum performance, the annual alumni luncheon, and the Society of the Alumni meeting. Individuals photographed may include Calvin Hastings Plimpton, John F. Boyle, Robert McNamara, George B. Bietzel, Bruce Archibald, Samuel Perkins Hayes, Jr., Harold F. Johnson, Harrison Scott Brown, Robert Morris Morgenthau, Wright Tisdale, Walter Gelhorn, William H. Pritchard, Benjamin H. DeMott, and Paul Howard Douglas. Photographs of 145th Commencement weekend events, related protest, and George Bain's retirement party, 1966 June Photographs of the 145th Commencement ceremony and related protest, 1966 June 3 Witkowski, Don Photographs of the 145th Commencement ceremony held on June 3, 1966. Photographed are students, faculty, and honorary degree awardees in academic regalia, the ceremony marshals, and members of the audience. The ceremony takes place in the Alumni Gymnasium and Athletic Complex Quadrangle. Also included are photographs of anti-Vietnam War protestors at the ceremony holding signs in promotion of peace and against Robert Strange McNamara, an honorary degree awardee at the ceremony. Individuals identified in photographs include Calvin Hastings Plimpton, John F. Boyle, and Robert McNamara. These photographs are assumed to have been taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs (now the Office of Communications). Photographs of the 145th Commencement ceremony and related protest, 1966 June 3 Photographs of the 144th Commencement ceremony, 1965 May 28 Amherst College Photographs of the 144th Commencement ceremony held on May 28, 1965. Photographed are students, faculty, and honorary degree awardees in academic regalia, the ceremony marshals, and members of the audience. The ceremony takes place in the Alumni Gymnasium and Athletic Complex Quadrangle. Also included are photographs of students in regalia in a locker room and photographs of honorary degree awardees and the College President posing for photographs indoors. Individuals photographed may include Calvin Hastings Plimpton, Mary Ingraham Bunting, Bill Liedtke, Rolfe Humphries, Frederick Scouller Allis, Jr., Jacqueline Lévy-Despas, John Rock, William Lucius Cary, Will Mercer Cook, Eustace Seligman, Louis Franklin Eaton, John F. Boyle, and Ernest Miller Whitcomb. These photographs are assumed to have been taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs (now the Office of Communications). The name of the photographer is unknown. Photographs of the 144th Commencement ceremony, 1965 May 28 Photographs of John F. Kennedy visit to Amherst College, 1963 October 26 Amherst College Photographs of President John F. Kennedy's visit to Amherst College for the groundbreaking ceremony for Robert Frost Library and a special convocation. Included are images of the Civil Rights vigil held with student and faculty attendees holding placards supporting Kennedy's Civil Rights program, the convocation at which President Kennedy and Archibald MacLeish were awarded honorary doctor of law degrees, the arrival of Kennedy and his entourage via helicopters on Memorial Field, media coverage of the events, the President's motorcade to the groundbreaking, and the groundbreaking for the library. Also included are images of a framed photograph from the convocation, the official groundbreakers posing together for a group portrait, and caricatures of Kennedy, football players, and a duck. A band, members of the media, State Police, Secret Service, and spectators can be seen in images. Specific individuals who can be seen in photographs include College President Calvin H. Plimpton (Calvin Hasting Plimpton), President Kennedy, Archibald Macleish, College Dean C. Scott Porter (Charles Scott Porter), College Librarian Newton F. McKeon, President of the Alumni Society Leonard P. Moore, Chairman of the Amherst Capital Program Harry W. Knight, President of the Amherst Student Council Harry W. Knight, Jr., Secretary of the College and Director of Publications Peter Schrag, and Trustees John J. McCloy, Kendall B. DeBevoise, and J. Alfred Guest. Photographs are taken in various locations including in Coolidge Cage of the Alumni Gymnasium, the Main Quadrangle (also known as the first-year quad), in front of the Alumni Gymnasium and Athletic Complex, and on the site where Frost Library currently stands. These photographs are assumed to have been taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs (now the Office of Communications). The name of the photographer is unknown. Photographs of John F. Kennedy visit to Amherst College, 1963 October 26 Photographs of a class in session taught by John William Ward, 1972 October Rosser, William J. Photographs of a class being taught by John William Ward. Ward and students can be seen talking with one another, reading, and taking notes. Also included are images of the exterior of Converse Hall and of an office. These photographs are assumed to have been taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs (now the Office of Communications). William Rosser and James U. Cryan Jr. were both College Photographers during this time. Photographs of a class in session taught by John William Ward, 1972 October Photographs of the Tom Gerety inauguration celebration, 1994 October 23 Bluh, Geoff Photographs of the inaugural celebration for Tom Gerety. Included are photographs of Gerety speaking on the steps of Chapin Hall with others, including Peter Pouncey, around him. Also photographed are attendees enjoying the festivities. Features of the celebration including human gyroscopes, the Sabrina statue, and performers dressed as puppets can be seen in images. The event takes place on Valentine Quad with Fayerweather Hall, Moore Dormitory, and Chapin Hall visible in the background of images. These photographs were taken by G.B.; it has been determined that G.B. refers to Geoffrey Bluh. Photographs of the Tom Gerety inauguration celebration, 1994 October 23
