Scholarships, 1950 - 1954

File — Box: D-05, Folder: D:058

Identifier: D:058

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes materials relating to Admissions, budget, Career Planning and Placement, Dean of College/Faculty/Students, Development Office/development drives, estates/wills/bequests, Financial Aid, tuition, grants, Muhlenberg's libraries, Public Relations, Ministerium Appeals, Memorial Funds, Multicultural Life, Public Relations, Registrar, and scholarships.

Includes booklets, newspaper clippings, promotional and marketing materials, correspondence, statistical reports, letter heads, emails, published papers, newsletters, legal papers, photos, matriculation book, and postcards.

Dates

1950 - 1954

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

Correspondence regarding donors, recipients, details of scholarships;

Excerpt from will of Emma L. Spang giving money to college (1950); Letters of controversy re: awarding of the Norristown Conference Scholarship (1950);

Martin Scholarship; John A.W. Haas Memorial Scholarship; Lutheran Brotherhood; Kift-Mullen Memorial Foundation Scholarship:

Details of two scholarships established for (1) business administration and (2) teachers;

Annual gifts given to college $1000-$2000 (1953-1960);

Bequest of $5,000 for James O. Leibensperger Scholarship 1953;

Pennsylvania Power and Light; Nancy and Bud Bacharach;

Lehigh Portland Cement Co. Scholarship guidelines: $20,000 scholarship, income for student tuition (1954); increased to $25,000 (1955);

Also established Lehigh Educational Shares Plan (1958);

Hazel and Conrad Seegers Fund;

Lehigh Portland Cement Company;

Brochure - "To Prepare for Leadership at Muhlenberg College - Eight ...$2000 Full-Tuition Four-Year Scholarships For Hgh School Men - deadline is 05/01/1950;