Development Drives, 1966 - 1969

File — Box: D-06, Folder: D:065

Identifier: D:065

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

1966 - 1969

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; MC receives grant from state; "Freedom and Responsibility" by President Jensen gives overview of college, physical needs of college, Ten Year Plan, members of Board of Trustees, gift (naming) opportunities, annual fund; request fo Eastern Lutheran Synod for funds; newspaper clipppings, new biology building planned, photos of theoretical unbuilt science building, Q.E.D. Reports; gift by Reginald R. Scheidt class 1932; annual fund; Trustees John Diereich and Frank Martin to direct drive; Newspaper photo of Jensen and others discussing $600,000 annual fund - 1967; two trustees, John Dietrich and Frank Martin direct 1967 annual fund; Alumnus Dr. Reginald Rudolph Scheidt, 1932, gives second $20,000 to annual fund drive 1967; Capital funds program (1967): new science building., Annual Fund, Synod gift, campaign organization, and timetable; Pres. Jensen's overview of college (1967) includes: students, curriculum, faculty, church relationship, Ten-Year plan; endowments; building needs; memoranda prepared by Frantzreb and Pray Associates, Inc. to facilitate solicitation of leadership gifts - 1967; Instrumental in development drives Don Dix 1968, 1962 Dr. Clifford Trexler;

Frantzreb and Pray Assoc. hired to do feasibility study; MC gets $363,548 state grant toward 4-story addition to science bldg; annual campaign hits $304,400 - 1967.

Brochure: What you Should know about The 1967 Annual Fund includes general information about purpose, goals, contributions, alumni giving, The Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Society, The President's Cabinet, The Century Club.

Brochure (undated) "The Alumni Chairmen Say . . . " photos of and comments by Ira F. Zartman (Class of 1923) and Edward H. Robertson (Class of 1942).

Q.E.D. (Quality Education Makes the Difference) development drive 1969: Brochure "Ten Steps to a Gift Commitment for Muhlenberg College"; Three Q.E.D. Reports detail campaign leadership, amount raised, committee members, biographical information for people applying to be campaign leaders.

Folded brochure MEET THE CHALLENGE! Become a member of the Century Club by contributing $100 or more to the Annual Fund.

16 page Booklet "Muhlenberg . . . 2nd Century Challenges for the Liberal Arts" includes message by President Erling N. Jensen, Muhlenberg and the Liberal Arts, quality of graduates in law, medicine, science, dentistry, teaching, industry, ministry; Muhlenberg and the Community, Today . . . a position of strength (operational budget, enrollment, endowment, value of college plant), Curriculum, Faculty, Student Body, Immediate Needs for J. Conrad Seegers Union, dormtories, classrooms, and offices, modernization of existing plant - $1,135,000)., Giving.