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 [...]

I have added this year’s student awards to the website.
This is a “work-in-progress” and if you have an addition or correction please let me know.
Thank you to Jeffrey Compton (BS 1977) for filling in holes in my collection.
R. C. (Rip) Rybnikar
Babson College Archives

Grace Margaret Knight Babson died on this day in 1956.  She was 82. She and Roger had been partners in life and work and were married for 56 years.
Grace was born in South Hadley, MA on December 12, 1873. Her father, Rev. Richard Knight, was a Congregational minister and missionary.  Grace met Roger Babson [...]

Nona was born in Milford, Maine on April 28, 1889. Her parents were Daniel (born in Ireland) and Ellen M. (Kelleher) Dougherty (born in Bangor, Maine.) She was an Honors graduate of the Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing. It was through her nursing that she met Mr. Babson. He had just returned to Wellesley [...]

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 [...]

One of the more difficult aspects of college life to document is the activity of clubs and organizations.  While many are very long lived others have the life span of the May fly.  I have put together a page where I am attempting to collect information which i hope will remain relatively current and allow [...]

This week’s 1949 Babson Beaver can be found by clicking here. Please note two things in this issue.  The first is the announcement of March graduates.  This merely acknowledges those who completed the requirements for their degrees at the end of Winter Term.  Babson Institute had three terms a year until 1969.  The same Master [...]

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 [...]

Last year at about this time I acquired a copy of Somethin’s Cookin’ at Babson from President William Dill. This collection of Babson College staff favorite recipes was printed in 1984 as a fund-raiser for the Babson College Women’s Club with the proceeds going for scholarships.  With a week before Thanksgiving 2008 I repost it [...]

I was reading last week’s Free Press and discovered a profile on the Archives on page two. As much as I enjoyed hearing nice things about the archives, I was particularly thrilled to hear how fired up people were for Beaver Bowl.  I hope that that interest in Babson’s history carries on into the participant’s [...]