Over the past month I have posted notices of several awards. Honorary Degrees were given on Commencement on May 16th.  The majority of the year’s student awards were announced at Commencement as well. Teaching Awards from both undergraduate and graduate students are given at this time of the year.The 4cs are given in April.
Less well [...]

At this past Saturday’s Commencement exercises there were two teaching awards given to faculty.  The Professor of the Year has been the undergraduate’s choice since 1969. This year’s choice was English Professor Elizabeth Goldberg.  The other faculty teaching award is given by graduate students.  The Thomas Kennedy Award for Teaching Excellence has been awarded since [...]

At yesterday’s Towm Meeting the 4 C Award and the Walter Carpenter Prize for Exceptional Contributions to Babson College were awarded.
This year’s 4 C Awards went to Nellie Pineault (MBA 2003) of Athletics; Sandy Sweetman of  Facilities; and Elizabeth Bristol of Graduate Programs and Student Affairs.
The Carpenter Prize was awarded to Professor Bob Turner of [...]

This week’s Beaver from 1949.
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 [...]

I recently scanned a brochure from the Computer Center at Babson College from around 1978.  Here is a link to articles on computing at Babson from the Babson Alumni Bulletin from 1977 which I posted last spring.
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Babson College Archives

Here is the Babson Beaver from sixty years ago this week.
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Babson College Archives

Here is this week’s Beaver from sixty years ago.
R. C. (Rip) Rybnikar
Babson College Archives

Beginning this Friday, January 30th and continuing until Friday May 1st, I will have open hours for the museum spaces in the Archives Suite (Horn Library 321.)  On those Fridays from 1:30 until 3:30 pm feel free to drop by and take a look around the Sir Isaac Newton Room and the Roger W. Babson [...]

Professor O’Donoghue has just announced that his year’s Thompson Visiting Poet will be Tom Sleigh who will be reading at Sorenson on February 11th.
Information on past Thompson Poets and other historical materials can be found on the Archives Website.
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Babson College Archives