This year’s Honorary Degree recipients have been named. The degrees will be conferred at next Saturday’s Commencement exercises. Babson College has been awarding honorary degrees since 1959.  It is worth noting that these degrees were not only awarded at Commencement.  A list of those awarded honorary degrees can be found at the Honorary Degree Awards [...]

The 1960 Babsonian has been scanned and put up on the Archives Timeline.
R. C. (Rip) Rybnikar
Babson College Archives

Thanks to the efforts of Horn Library’s Technical Services staff we now have a nearly complete collection of the Babson alumni magazine available to use in the Library. Begun as “The Alumni News” in 1924 the magazine has grown and changed over the years.  But through mission, format, and title changes the magazine remains a [...]

Many Babson alums have heard a story that Mr. Babson told students that Babson Institute, now Babson College, would never ask alumni for money. I hear the story often.  While I don’t seem to have complete proof of Mr. Babson’s thoughts on this matter, I offer this typescript PDF of his remarks to the graduating [...]

The Babson Collection is a special section of the Horn
Library where you can find Babson-specific materials.  It is currently located on shelves outside of
study room 201 in the Horn Library. The newest addition to the collection is
the Babson Alumni Magazine (which since spring 2005 has been known as the
Babson Magazine.)  There are bound
volumes from 1929 [...]

Neesha Modi (BS 2004) noticed that I didn’t not have a 2004 or 2005 Babsonian listed on the archives website. She offered to loan me her copies which I scanned and put up on the Babsonian page and the Timeline.  I am grateful to Neesha for her generousity to me which I have shared with [...]

The Cruickshank Alumni Leadership Award recognizes outstanding alumni volunteers.  It began life in 1988 as the Volunteer of the Year Award.  In 1994 it was named to honor the exceptional volunteer service of William H. Cruickshank, Jr. (Class of 1949 & Doctor of Laws 1999).  At this fall’s Back to Babson Reunion Alumni Hall will [...]

In the summer of 1977 the Babson Alumni Magazine published an overview on the impact of computers on how we do things.  Enjoy.
R. C. (Rip) Rybnikar
Babson College Archives

President Dill visited a few weeks ago and he brought gifts for the Archives.  Among books and bound journals was this delightful jewel.  Somethin’s Cookin’ At Babson was used as part of the fund raising efforts of the Babson College Women’s Club.  Published in 1984 the collection of recipes was sold to raise money for [...]