Alumni Dinners/Banquets, 1883 - 1992

File — Box: T-01

Identifier: T:010

Staff Only

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

1883 - 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

Programs from alumni banquets; All-Alumni Awards Luncheons (1955-1992);

letter from Richard Cowen 1953 to trustees stating women should be allowed to attend reunion dinners, no more stag dinners

Program for 2nd Annual Awards Dinner and Party-Dance, 6/12/1954 includes Fight Song, Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet, The Alma Mater

Program for 14th (6/4/1966) Annual All-Alumni Awards Luncheon: Awards presented to Bruce R. Romig, Franklin A. Hamm, James A. Skidmore, Donald B. Hoffman, Hagen Staack

Program for 16th (6/1/1968) Annual All-Alumni Awards Luncheon: Awards presented to Preston A. Barba, William S. Hudders, Kenneth H. Koch, Richard G. Miller

Menu for Alumni Banquet 6/22/1892