Fahy Commons, 2021 - 2023

File — Box: W-08

Identifier: W:097

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes materials relating to architectural plans, funding, construction, dedication of buildings/cornerstones.

Includes photos, postcards, newspaper clippings, calendars, brochures, student rules, blueprints, worship bulletins, fliers, and slides with script.

Dates

2021 - 2023

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

Morning Call article and photos of ground breaking for Parkway Boulevard Building with President Harring and others; projected to open September 2022; Sigma Phi Epsilon building will be razed;

Morning Call article 12/12/2020 - "Anonymous donors give $7.5M to Muhlenberg College"; Donation, called 'transformative' is largest in 172-year history of Allentown college; Money will be used for new construction of Parkway Boulevard building and expansion of Seegers Union; Parkway Building will house: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program, Institute of Public Opinion, Division of Graduate and Continuing Studies, and Office of Community Engagement as well as art space

Campus update August 2022 includes photos of Parkway Boulelvard Building progress, updates for Waltz, Rehearsal House, Trexler Pavilion, Seegers Union, Trumbower Hall, Baker Center for the Arts, Gabriel House, Memorial Hall, Life Sports Center, John Dietrich Field House

Morning Call article 4/22/2023 - TOWN SQUARE by President Kathleen Harring: Fahy shows Muhlenberg's investment in Valley; President Harring describes brief history of the college, growth of the college, and building the most recent Fahy Commons, a highly sustainable building which houses the College Institute of Public Opinion, School of Continuing Studies, Innovation and Entrepreneurship program, Religious and Spiritual Life offices, and Office of Community Engagement.

Black and white 8 1/2" x 11" photos of Fahy Commons Naming Ceremony, 9/26/2022 include: Rebekkah Brown, President Kathleen Harring, Cathleen A. Fahy, Gerald P. Fahy, Tammy Borman, Mark Paris; biography of Gerald Fahy, class of 1979; details of the largest personal gift in the collee's history and construction of the building;