Faculty Committee: Athletics, 1941 - 1961

File — Box: N-01

Identifier: N:008

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes materials relating appointments/promotions/changes, awards, deaths, faculty committees, faculty departments, grants, sabbaticals, Memorial Fund, individual faculty and staff members, policy/handbook, professorships, recruitment, retirement/resignation, salary, scholarship, schedules, visiting professors, tuition exchange/remission.

Includes newspaper clippings, newsletters, handbook, and brochures.

Dates

1941 - 1961

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

Letters re: intercollegiate athletics, letters of student dissatisfaction with physical education program and athletics, policy of "professionalism" in athletics, request for student representation on Athletic Committee of Board of Trustees Reports, minutes, and recommendations to the Board of Trustees 1948, 1957;

varsity lettermen 1956-57; approved policy for new sports (1957)

Athletic Committee requests that Board of Trustees authorize employment of professional trainer - 1959

Citation presented to Rev. Dr. Morris S. Greth, alumnus, organizer and head of Department of Sociology, on his retirement (undated)

John Shankweiler, alumnus and faculty, heads Athletic Committee; George E. Lawson is Graduate Manager

General information on athletics - Committee of Athletics, creation of Department of Physical Education, Student Health, and Intercollegiate Athletics, Director of Physical Education (1947); athletics 1960;

Tyson letter to Rev. Marvin Dewalt re: cost of athletics - 1960

Tyson note to Horn re: regular attendance at physical education classes