Photograph of the McMurry College Board of Trustees, taken in 1956. They stand in front of an academic building.

Photograph of Dr. Roland T. Schaefer, professor of religion at McMurry College. He is posing for his picture in a suit and tie.

Photograph of the McMurry College Board of Trustees standing on the steps of a building, taken at a meeting in March 1956.

Photograph of Dr. Will Irwin, McMurry College Professor of Religion beginning in 1956.

Photograph of seven men who received honorary doctorates from McMurry College at the 33rd annual Commencement Exercises on Monday, May 28, 1956. Pictured are (seated, from left): Bishop Watts, resident Bishop of the Nebraska Area of the Methodist Church, who delivered the Commencement Address; J. M. Willson, Floydada (Texas) businessman and Chairman of the McMurry Board of Trustees; Don H. Morris, President of Abilene Christian College. In the back row are (standing, from left): Reverend Ewart G. Watts, Pastor of Asbury Methodist Church in El Paso and Baccalaureate Speaker (Bishop Watts' son); Reverend C. Raymond Gray of El Paso, a retired Methodist minister; Reverend E. E. White, District Superintendent of the Childress Methodist District; and Reverend Dallas D. Denison, Pastor of the First Methodist Church in Abilene.

Photograph of the McMurry College Board of Trustees standing on steps outside of a building. Two notes on the back of the photograph indicate that the photo was taken in either 1956 or 1957.

A photograph of Dr. Walter S. Long seated at a cluttered desk, reading a manuscript. Long was a visiting Professor of Chemistry at McMurry College in Abilene, Texas. A handwritten note on the back reads, "Walter S. Long, May 1956, (amateur work)."