Group with James Rhyne Killian at Baccalaureate Service, 1954

Object summary

Title: Group with James Rhyne Killian at Baccalaureate Service, 1954
Object ID: GCP-00013588
Date made: 1954-06-10
Place made: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MIT, Building 50
Object type: Photograph
Major collection: MIT History
Named collection: Biographical/Subject Files Collection
On view: No

Description

Group photograph of men in academic robes at Commencement, 1954. Left to right are James Rhyne Killian, Gilbert Highet, Karl Taylor Compton and E. Francis Bowditch. Stamp on verso reads "Jun 10 1954". Original caption: "(Upper right) Taking part in the baccalaureate service were (left to right) President Killian, '26, Professor Gilbert Highet, of Columbia University, who delivered the baccalaureate address, Dr. Karl T. Compton, and Dean of Students, E. Francis Bowditch." Used in: Technology Review, July 1954, p. 456.