Shankweiler Society, 1994 - 2018

File — Box: T-03

Identifier: T:022

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

1994 - 2018

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

First Shankweiler Society and Alumni Physicians Hall of Fame Dinner brochure; annual dinners and induction of fellows; Biography of "Doc" Shankweiler

Physicians and biographies (class)inducted: John Haws (1926), Thomas Natoli (1938), Benjamni Bacharach (1952), Harry A. Kaupp (1952), Alan DeCherney (1963)

Physicians (class) inducted: Paul John Grotzinger (1939), Charles E. Mortimer (1943), Earl A. Gabriel (1950), Robert F. Knouss (1966), Kenneth J. Veit (1972)

Forrest Moyer '35 Honored at Opening Convocation; Dr. John Van Brakle (1970) holds the Forrest G. Moyer Distinguished Chair in Pediatrics at Lehigh Valley Hospital

Richard S. Levinson, M.D., '65:The Healing Artist

Physcians (class) inducted: Morton Silverman (1934), Herbert Needleman (1948), Robert Karp (1962), Philip Harber (1968), Karen Antman (1970),

Shankweiler Faculty Fellows (physicians): Robert Boyer, Charles Mortimer (1942), G. N. Russel Smart, John Trainer (1935), John Weston

Induction of Shankweiler Fellows: Suzanne E. Landis (1974), Ronald F. Tuma (1970), Barry D. Waterhouse (1971), Leonard I. Zion (1979)

Induction of Shankweiler Fellows: Margaraet Smith Dordal (1976), Robert C. Nuss (1958), Ronald F. Tuma (1970)