Alumni Fund, 1925 - 1977

File — Box: T-04A

Identifier: T:043

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

1925 - 1977

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

Brochures sent to alumni to raise funds; "The Loyalty Letter" (Loyalty Fund); pamphlet "A Greater Muhlenberg"; photo of student body 1923; campaign launched 1965; newsletter overview of fund raising and brochure of Annual Gift Program 1955

Fund Raising; Loyalty Fund; history and background of Alumni Fund; Buy-Back-A-Bond; college finances

What's Happened to College Faculty Salaries

Mailer envelope requesting gifts to the 1965 Alumni Fund

undated mailer requesting funds "For Academic Services Rendered, 4 years - $1,500.00

1954 Alumni Fund - "This is Our Test Year!" - appeal to alumni, Harry I. Oxenreider '28. chairman

Pamphlet "Muhlenberg College 1936 Alumni Fund Council" - The Purpose . . . The John A. W. Haas Scholarship Fund