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Alumni Deaths, 1945 - 2024

 File — Box: T-01, Folder: T:009
Identifier: T:009

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes materials relating to alumni, awards, Alumni Association, authors, Alumni Club, deaths, dinners, Alumni Fund, publications, travel, Circle Club, reunions held on campus, Shankweiler Society, Class of 1876-1991, and information about individual alumni.

Includes constitution and by-laws, event programs, photos, speeches, personal letters, newspaper clippings, mailer envelopes, ballots, tickets, brochures, magazine articles, newsletters, fliers, commencement invitations, poems, report card, and surveys.

Dates

  • 1945 - 2024

Creator

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.)

Ernest Triemer, who was in first V-12 unit on campus; John F. Koehler, Reuben Jacob Butz

Alumnus/Alumnae (Class): Reverend Dr. Paul H. Spohn (1955), Rev. Harold S. Weiss (1952), Rev. Michael J. Bodnyk, Sr.(1972), Charles Lewis Knecht III, MD, Rev. Clarence A. Steigerwalt (1924), Richard D. Schaadt (1951), Bernard "Bernie" John Willgruber (1951), Allen Sincavage (1975), Walter Harlan Beadling III, Dr. Franklin Sherman (1949), Andrew W. Budraitis, Robert L. Warmkessel (1953), Rev. Dr. Arvids Ziedonis, Jr. (1955), Walter Pocalyko (1950), Carl A. Fenstermaker (1960), Anthony F. Daniele Jr., Dr. Charles D. Peters (1954), Carole A. Whittlinger (1987), Patricia D. Hoffman (1960), William D. Miers (1949), Mervin Wertman (1903), Judith K. (Schmoyer) Labenberg ((1967), Dr. Edward J. Haberern ((1956)

Alumni who died in service in World War II: Charles J Barrie (1939), John J. Bortz (1926), Francis A. Boyer (1944), Robert Brill (1946), Carl G. Clayton (1934), Richard R. Dietrich (1940), James L. Edminster (1943), William E. Findlay (1942), Ralph J. Frey (1940), Robert Huxham (1945), Herbert Korenko (1939), William Laing (1937), Warren E. Lindgren (1947), John C. Rehfus (1935), Roland Rupp (1917), Donald Steritt, Jr. (1933), Robert W.S. Stinson (1935), Kenneth Struble (1943), Raymond Turner (1942), Joseph B. Walker (1943), William H. Wimmer (1944), Victor Windus (1939)

James Oliver Leibensperger, D.D. (alumnus and Board of Trustees), Rev. Russell D. Snyder, D.D.

Karl Peckmann (1954 alumnus and Board of Trustees, recipient of the Horn Award and Aluni Achievement Award)

Mitchell A. Shablin

William H. Wimmer (1944), Carl Clayton (1934)

David L. Beck; John J. Repasch, Jr.

Royce C. Seifert

John David Miller Brown (1906), college trustee, college English teacher, death in 1951

Lois C. Nowack, (1994) death 2021; contributions to Lois C. Nowack '94 Scholarship Fund

George W. York, Jr.; death 2021; donations to Muhlenberg College

Boyd Hawes Walker, Esq. (1944 received in absentia while stationed in Pacific), death 4/29/2021

Christopher D. Pynchon (2000), death 8/27/20202

George S. Smith, Jr. (1955)

Paul E. Matlock, death 7/28/2020

John R. Lapp, death 12/16/2020

Robert Harvey Egolf, death 2/12/2021

Joseph M. Skutches (1953), death 12/31/2020

William F. Deibert, Jr. (1943), death 12/24/2020

John F. Haberern, death 3/2/2021

John Harwick, death 2021, contributions to Muhlenberg College

Carl K. Newhart, death 2/21/2021

Charles W. Morgan, Jr. (1950), death 4/26/2022

Bernice M (Orkis) Gardiner, death 12/28/2021

Arthur Alan Altman (1953), death 5/2022

Thomas Charles Nottle (1959), death 5/19/2022

Robert A. Wessner (1961), death 7/21/2022

Dr. Russel S. Bleiler, Jr. (1956) death 10/25/2022

Dr. Charles J. Lavin (1954) death-undated

Charles F. Wieder, death 1/22/2023

Dr. John C. Lychak (1946), death 2/07/2023

Floyd Moyer, death 2/28/2023

Frank A. Micek, death 3/4/2023

Anthony R. LaPadula, death 3/9/2023

Walter P. Risley, Jr., death 4/17/2023

Donald J. Belasco, death 8/06/2023

Terrence H. Pypiuk, death 10/09/2023

Samuel Joseph Hoanzl, Jr., death 11/22/2023

Michael A. Sanders (1959), death 11/26/2023

Ronald E. Smoll, death 1/11/24

John "Jack" D. Ashner (1970), death 2/12/24

John D. Van Brakle, MD, death 4/17/2024

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the College Archives (Muhlenberg College Collection) Repository

Contact:
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Allentown PA 18104 United States