Trainer, John E., 1952 - 1999

File — Box: N-08

Identifier: N:086A

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes materials relating appointments/promotions/changes, awards, deaths, faculty committees, faculty departments, grants, sabbaticals, Memorial Fund, individual faculty and staff members, policy/handbook, professorships, recruitment, retirement/resignation, salary, scholarship, schedules, visiting professors, tuition exchange/remission.

Includes newspaper clippings, newsletters, handbook, and brochures.

Dates

1952 - 1999

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

April 19, 1939: Changes in Biology Department for 1939-'40: new instructor will be Mr. John Trainer, currently working at Cornell for the Ph.D. degree. He will have charge of the courses in Anatomy, General Biology, Genetics, and Zoology laboratory work. Photography will also be included in the regular schedule of courses. This was a prerequisite for this positon.

November 14, 1948 letter from Presdient Levering Tyson recommending promotion of Dr. John Trainer to rank of associate professor, first incumbent of this rank.

November 15, 1950 letter from President Levering Tyson to Trainer that he is advanced to Professor of Biology.

Dr. Trainer, esteemed Biology professor, served Muhlenberg for 40 years.

"Great Muhlenberg Faculty" brochure includes Dr. John E. trainer, Sr. '35, Dr. Edwin R. Baldrige, Jr., Dr. Joan Marx '77

News release "Muhlenberg College Dedicates the Dr. John Trainer '35 Conference Room" in the New Science Building to honor professor who served Muhlenberg for 40 years.

Radio script of "The WFIL-TV University of the Air" Outline and Reading Lists October 1952 - Jauary 1953 - featuring 17 episodes "Birds of a Feather" with John E. Trainer, Professor of Biology at Muhlenberg College. Includes "A Checklist of Birds of Lehigh County, PA" by John E. Trainer and Clinton F. A. Miller - published by The Lehigh Valley Bird Club, 108 N 13th Street, Allentown, PA 1956

Memorial Service speech given by Dr. Carl Oplinger, biology professor, in Egner Chapel, February 20, 1999. Trainer's dDeath was February 13, 1999 at St. Luke's Hospital in Fountain Hill.