Messerli, Jonathan C.: Achievements, 1984 - 1992

File — Box: C-04

Identifier: C:037

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

1984 - 1992

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

Restoration of morale, building of Trexler Library, renovations, Parents' Plaza, endowment $7 M to $32 M, expanded faculty, increased alumni support, painted doors red; long range plan 1992-1997

Morning Call article 1/7/1991 - "Messerli will leave a lasting mark on Muhlenberg"; "President aims college for 'Nifty 50'

Morning Call article with photo - 1/6/1991 - "Concern in Camelot: The Messerli legacy"

Morning Call article with photo - 5/11/1991 - "Muhlenberg president retiring in '92: Ambitious bilding program to be Messerli legacy"

Copy of Reading Times article with photo - 5/26/1990 - "College president cultivates talents beyond academia" (keeps a cast iron phone booth on his Kutztown farm)

8/26/1986 - 20 page Opening Convocation Address

Article in "Lion of Alpha Epsilon Pi, Fall 1990" - "College President, Brother"

Morning Call - 8/23/1984 "New president charting Muhlenberg's future"

Morning Call - 3/1/1984 - "'Berg president assisted in teacher training report"

Morning Call - 11/29/1985 - "Muhlenberg strives to be among elite"

Morning Call - 2/12/1990 - "Collapse of the Berlin Wall symbolic of communism's fall" by Jonathan C. Messerli

Messerli's brief comment included in "The Right Stuff"

Paperwork for Nomination of President Messerli for citation by the All PA College Alumni Association of Washington DC

Dr. JOnathan C. Messerli, President of Muhlenberg College, Honored at Jewish Federation Closing Event

Jonathan and Vi Messerli receive Alumni Achievement Award for distinguished and exceptional service to the college by non-alumni of the college

Outline of Progress Report on first year of presidency