Also in the LIFE photo archive: photos of Wesleyan students and professors volunteering at the Connecticut Valley Hospital for the mentally ill in 1965:
And a series of 1968 photos of Wesleyan’s then-president, the dapper alumnus Edwin D. Etherington, at home with his family:
Etherington was the president of the American Stock Exchange before taking over at Wesleyan, and was a staunch civil rights advocate who got Wes to admit women and increase minority student enrollment. Plus he’s got a serious Don Draper thing going on: