Tyson, Levering: Correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1937 - 1951

File — Box: C-02

Identifier: C:015

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes materials relating to each president and interim president from Frederick A. Muhlenberg in 1867 through Kathleen Harring in 2022, including biographical background, selection, inauguration, correspondence, achievements, and resignation/retirement from office.

Includes programs, emails, documents, newspaper clippings, legal papers, interviews, addresses, speeches, and personal letters.

Dates

1937 - 1951

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

Letter to Governor Arthur H. James regarding not appointing a State Superintendent of Public Insstruction until further study is made 1939; Governor Arthur H. James to receive honorary LL.D. 1939; leltter to Dr Samuel Trexler, alumnus, congratulations on election as Presdient of United Lutheran Church Synod;

Letter from Prof. of Education at State Teachers College of Edinboro, PA, to Tyson mentioning Tyson's work in radio development; Tyson letter to Dr. Charles Trexler regarding expenses at MC for a student;

Chapel kneelers have been transferred to St. John's Lutheran Church, Allentown; Tyson letter to Harry V. Masters of Albright College describing the President's Fund;

Tyson letter to John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg regarding old books and papers 1942 from his home in Reading;

Tyson letter to Lehigh Valley Railroad Company regarding students participating in scrap drive for war effort by uprooting old trolley tracks between Allentown and Kutztown, with permission, and confusion over the incident 1943;

Tyson thanks Honorable Frank Trexler for Trexler's brother's donation of mineral collection to geology department; Tyson letter to Z.B. Trexler of Lenoir Rhyme College regarding Living Endowment program and Loyalty Fund 1945; Tyson correspondence regarding Lambda Chi Alpha house will continue to be used as Sick Bay; Charles Esser donates $500. to Sports Building fund - 1945;

Letter to Charles D. Trexler, Tyson's older son Jim in serving in Italy; younger son, David, after freshman year at Muhlenberg, entered Navy V-12 program here'; letter from Charles D. Trexler, Army chaplain, includes newspaper clipping and photo of Eleanor Roosevelt who mentions luncheon with Levering Tyson and his son in Washington, DC.;

Tyson letter to Governor Edward Martin noting inaccurate data about Muhlenberg College in published booklet 1945; Draft #2 of letter to unknown person, describing Muhlenberg's history and asking to be included as a personal or corporate benefactor - 1945;

Tyson's letter to James Bender, Treasurer's Office at Bethlehem Steel Company, 4/17/46, detailing history of college business operations from 1937 to present; discussion regarding college Treasurer; listing of responsibilities of business;

Letter of thanks to Captain William E. Lewis for manuscripts now on view in the library; Tyson thanks Robert Trexler that the Indian relics have been received and properly housed 1947; Levering Tyson's correspondence to an inquiry from Philadelphia Textile Institute re: organization of college, Board of Trustees standing committees, President, Faculty;

Letter from Jeremiah Schindel regarding pier-glass purchased by Cedar Crest College asking if Muhlenberg wants this; Tyson's correspondence with Frederick G. Erb re: coeducation, enrollment and 'war babies', tuition, need for gymnasium - 1950