Photographs of the 147th Commencement ceremony, 1968 June 7
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Black and white photographs of the 147th Commencement ceremony. Photographed are several awardees in academic regalia receiving their honorary degrees from Calvin Hastings Plimpton (President of Amherst College, 1960-1971). 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 were 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.