Scholarships, 1955 - 2000

File — Box: D-05, Folder: D:059

Identifier: D:059

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes materials relating to Admissions, budget, Career Planning and Placement, Dean of College/Faculty/Students, Development Office/development drives, estates/wills/bequests, Financial Aid, tuition, grants, Muhlenberg's libraries, Public Relations, Ministerium Appeals, Memorial Funds, Multicultural Life, Public Relations, Registrar, and scholarships.

Includes booklets, newspaper clippings, promotional and marketing materials, correspondence, statistical reports, letter heads, emails, published papers, newsletters, legal papers, photos, matriculation book, and postcards.

Dates

1955 - 2000

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

Correspondence, donors, recipients, details regarding scholarships:

Luthern Brotherhood College Scholarships: recipients: Donald B. Landis, Byard J. Ebling, Richard G. Miller, Edward C. Smith, Alfred K. Hettinger, Karl Schneider, Earl A. Knies, Richard A. King, Frank S. Walinski, A. David Deery 1953-1958;

Students receive Pennsylvania Power and Light Scholarship: $500 annually: William A. Gallagher (1955), Richard T. Lunger (1959), Elmer Truchses (1959); John A.W. Haas;

Hazel and Conrad Seegers Fund;

Gunard O. Carlson establishes two scholarships (1955): Nancy and Bud Bacharach Scholarship Fund, Hazel and Conrad Seegers Fund; four $500 Chester County Area Airport Authority bonds donated to MC by Gunard Berry Carlson Memorial Foundation (1959);

President Seegers wants to establish an Adivsory Committee - 1958;

Lehigh Portland Cement Company; Frederick E. Hanson;

Samuel Trexler - portrait and Fellowship Fund;

Newspaper article re:Fredrick E. Hansen establishes scholarship for foreign-study grant; Hansen cited at Board of Associates dinner for his contributions to college;

Haas Memorial Scholarship recipients: Donald Landis ('54),Kenneth M. Trexler ('54), Harold S. Leam ('55), Richard R. Bernecker ('56), Ernest Helfrich ('57);

Establishment of Samuel Trexler Scholarship, unveiling of his portrait - 1956;

Kuendig Memorial Bible Class Scholarship (Stipple, Reading) - $2,000 scholarship established for student from St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Reading, for student entering ministry;

Merck Sharp and Dohme establishes Memorial Fund (1958) in memory of employee Robert J. Urffer (alum);

analysis of scholarships and grants 1953-55;

Craig H. Reynolds receives $100.00 scholarship at beginning of Freshman year (1958-59) from Maytag Foundation;

Kift-Mullen scholarship to Carol Decker - 1958;

Student Herbert Gishlick receives Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate study (March 1960);

Scholler Foundation; George Z. Vogt Scholarship; Harrison W. Prosser Loan Fund

Flyers for (4) $2,800 4-year scholarships, 1957 and 1959

Details of $600,000 gift to endow needs-based scholarship of Astrid S. Johnson Scholarship Fund - 2000

Pamphlet "Muhlenberg Colllege will award Four $3,000 Four-Year Scholarships and Many Grants-in-Aid to High School Men and Women" - deadline for applicants is 01/15/1960;