Baccalaureate , 1949 - 1968

File — Box: L-01, Folder: L:003

Identifier: L:003

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes programs for events including baccalaureate, commencement, chapel services, performing arts, and convocations, and more.

Dates

1949 - 1968

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

Program 6/05/1949 - Sermon by Reverend Robert D. Hershey, Pastor of Church of the Holy Communion, Philadelphia;

(2) booklets titled Baccalaueate Service 6/04/1950 and Commencement Exercises 6/05/1950 include: Baccalaureatte Sermon "The Promise and Peril of the Future" by Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary and Commencement Address by Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. of Harvard University.

Program 6/04/1950 - Sermon by Reverend Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary

Program 6/03/1951 - (3) copies of program. Sermon by Kenneth G. Grubb of London, England. Includes insert for 'Dedication of Gifts: Blessing of the Mosaic Tablets and detailed descripton of the tablets in the arch of the narthex. Blessing of the Flag of the United Nations.

Program 6/01/1952 - Sermon by Reverend Emil E. Fisher of Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and typewritten listing of gifts of The Woman's Auxiliary including paraments, altar linens, gates, music cabinet, hymn boards.

Program 5/31/1953 - Sermon by Reverend Harry F. Baughman, President Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg

Program 6/06/1954 - Sermon by Reverend Charles M. Cooper, President of Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania;

Program 6/05/1955 - Sermon by Reverend Henry H. Bagger, President of Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia;

Program 6/10/1956 - Sermon by Reverend Edmund A. Steimle, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia;

Program 6/09/1957 - Sermon by Reverend Walter H. Eastwood, Pastor at First Presbyterian Church, Allentown;

Program 6/08/1958 - Sermon by Reverend Edward T. Horn, III, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Philaselphia;

Program 6/07/1959 - Sermon by Reverend Earl R. Kreidler, Pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church, Slatington;

Program 6/05/1960 - Sermon by Reverend Samuel E. Kidd, Ministerium of Pennsylvania;

Program 6/04/1961 - Sermon by Reverend Charles M. Cooper, Ministerium of Pennsylvania

Program 6/03/1962 - Sermon by Reverend Malvin H. Lundeen, President of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church;

Program 6/09/1963 - Sermon by Reverend Donald R. Heiges, President of Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg;

Program 6/07/1964 - Address by Reverend Conrad J. I. Bergendoff, Executive Secretary Board of Theological Education, Lutheran Church in America; typewritten address "Think About These Things"

Program 6/06/1965 - Address by Reverend Henry E. Horn, Pastor of University Lutheran Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts;

Program 6/05/1966 - Address by Reverend William H. Lazareth, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia;

Program 6/04/1967 - Address by Reverend C. thomas Spitz, Jr.. Lutheran Council in the U.S.A.

Program 6/02/1968 - Address by Reverend Martin E. Marty, Chairman of the Historical Field, Divinity School of the University of Chicago.

Forms for organization of procession, seating.

Tickets to baccalareate services for 6/06/1954, 6/08/1958, 6/05/1960.