Class of 1961, 1961

File — Box: T-04

Identifier: T:035

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

1961

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

Multiple copies of "The Great, Great Class of 1961 - Blue Book Bugle Newsletter";

50th Reunion/Homecoming booklet information 2011; Alumnus Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously to Robert A. Butz;

Ciarla 50th Reunion yearbook 2011 (2 copies);

"Morning Call" photo of individual members of Class of 1961 graduates, first class of coeds; photo copies of typical female students in dorm, evening wear, relaxing;

Booklet "Coeducation at Muhlenberg - A Beginning" by Margaret Williams Cameron, 1961 (reference to ginko trees, hazing, class ring, Spring Sing and Ring, door decorating contest, Delta Phi Nu is first sorority, housemothers, Mask and Dagger Drama Club, panty raids)

Programs: First Assembly of the Class of 1961 (9/15/57); "In Memoriam Chapel Service" 9/16/11 commemorates Fallen and deceased 1961 classmates;

"In Memoriam: A Tribute to Our Deceased Alumni" 9/18/11