Opening Convocation - Matriculation, 1945 - 2024

File — Box: L-09, Folder: L:056

Identifier: L:056

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes programs for events including baccalaureate, commencement, chapel services, performing arts, and convocations, and more.

Dates

1945 - 2024

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

Programs for Opening Convocation and Matriculation Services, some years missing.

Program for Matriculation Service 1945, 1955

109th Academic Year - Opening Convocation program, 9/19/1956;

114th Academic Year - Opening Convocation program, 9/15/1961, Erling N. Jensen President;

115th Academic Year - Opening Convocation program, 9/21/1962;

116th Academic Year - Opening Convocation program, 9/19/1963; Article and photos in The Evening Chronicle, Allentown, PA 9/19/1963 "Cedar Crest, Muhlenberg Launch New School Year" and "Muhlenbeg Opens Term; 1,291 Enroll"

120th Academic Year - Opening Convocation program, 9/20/1967; 100th Anniversary of the Naming of Muhlenberg College; Address by Earl J McGrath, Director, Institute of Higher Education, Teachers' College, Columbia University, Chancellor of Eisenhower College

Opening Convocation, 8/26/1986, President Jonathan C. Messerli; conferring of honorary degree on Alfred Kramer, Class of 1931, L.H.D.;

170th Opening Convocation, 8/27/2017, President John I. Williams, Jr.; includes mission statement, diversity statement, new members of Muhlenberg community;

175th Opening Convocation, 8/28/2022, President Kathleen Harring; includes college mission statement, diversity statement, academic dress, the mace;

177th Opening Convocation program, 8/25/2024, held in Paul C. Empie Theatre; Participants include: Kathleen E. Harring, President; Jack Gambino, College Marshal; Rev. Christopher deForest, Provost Laura Lowe Furge, Vishmitha Dsouza '24,