Trexler Library - Dedication booklet, 1988

File — Box: W-07, Folder: W:080

Identifier: W:080

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes materials relating to architectural plans, funding, construction, dedication of buildings/cornerstones.

Includes photos, postcards, newspaper clippings, calendars, brochures, student rules, blueprints, worship bulletins, fliers, and slides with script.

Dates

1988

Creator

Muhlenberg College (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research, with only a few very limited restrictions; access by appointment.

Extent

From the Collection: 50 Linear Feet (The bulk of the printed material (previously the vertical files) is contained in flip-top document cases. Textiles, memorabilia, and other realia is stored in appropriate lidded boxes.)

Additional Description

Copies of dedication booklet detail President Messerli's message, architect Robert Geddes, contractor Alvin H.Butz, construction manager Lee Butz, cabinetmaker Thomas Moser, sculptor William Severson, landscaper Louis Schiller; major donors, floor plans, Board of Directors; memorial opportunity; Cedar Crest College Partnership; cost $12 million; Tower of Concord

Muhlenberg Collelge Head Librarians: David Garber, Rev. John A. Bauman, Stephen G. Simpson, Richard L. Brown, John S. Davidson, Patricia Ann Sacks

Library features, Artwork, Vital Statistics, Cost, Architect

Dedication Service program 9/30/1988 - 10/1/1988; dedication weekend includes outdoor festival featuring exhibits and demonstrations of bookbinding, printing, silkscreening, calligraphy, world's 1,001 "best books", outdoor laser show, lecture by architect Robert Geddes, brass quintet fanfare, passing of books along a 'human chain" between Haas and Trexler Libraries, Viewings of "Yours Truly, Harry C. Trexler" film on the life of Harry Trexler, exhibits on The Muhlenberg Collections, tours of the $12 million Trexler Library; illustrations of the 'Rose of Sharon' that appears on brass doorknobs and elsewhere in theJohn A. W. Haas Library; Dedication address given by Frederick Busch '62, novelist, essayist, and professor of English at Colgate University. Remarks by President Jonathan Messerli and Board of Directors chairman, Wayne Keck '44.

Threshold to the Future, four page brochure by Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers of 72 Wright's Landing, Auburn, Maine, inlcudes photos of study areas, terraces, Level A Commons, and front exterior entrance.