Faculty Department: Social Sciences, 1940 - 1955

File — Box: N-05

Identifier: N:060

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

1940 - 1955

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

Department includes: 1) history and political science 2) economics and business 3) sociology; Forum directed by faculty: C. Bowman, T. Kennedy, R. Hartman, J. Swain, R. Hibbard, V. Johnson, J. Jackson; new course based on Swain's "History of World Civilization" 1946 * A School of Social Work will be organized due to need for social workers throughout the Ministerium of Pennsylvania and United Lutheran Church in America 1943 Frank W. Davis appointed economics lecturer Feb-May, 1948 Arthur M.Schaefer appointed Instructor in Economics - 1955; Norman B. Thomson appointed lecturer in Economics - 1955 History instructors: Donald S. Traill, A. Eric Bubeck, LeGrand R. Drown, Alfred Gemmell, Helmut J. Golatz, Carl B. Hoffman, Norman F. Keller, Thomas R. Meredith, Mervic J. Shuman; Sociology faculty: Cressman, H.P.C., Charles B. Bowman, Bertha Paulssen, Morris S. Greth, William Ward; Business faculty: Roland F. Hartman, D. Irvin Reitz; Economics faculty: Karl F.J. Wittrich, John P. Rice, Sherman Sass, Nicholas M. Smeloff, Roy E, Smeltzer Social Sciences, department created 1949; Swain, James E., published; Schaeffer, A. M.; Thomson, N.B.; Mueller, H.R.; Jackson, J.S.; Johnson, V.L. Booklet 'First Annual Forum' for high school students 5/40 Helmut J. Golatz appointed instructor in Department of Social Studies (7/1/46), terminated 6/30/49