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Deaths, 1948 - 2024

 File — Box: N-04
Identifier: N:037

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

  • 1948 - 2024
  • 2024

Creator

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.)

Death of Professor Dr. Robert Fritsch, class of 1900, on 2/18/60; J. Gysbert Bouma; Edward Stevens 1965; Isaac M. Wright 1948; Vilma S. Sinha 2010; G.N. Russell Smart 2011; Harold L. Stenger 2000; Mary Stenger; Indrikis Sterns 2005; Silas David White 1994; Kenneth Webb 2008; Katherine S. Van Eerde 2006; Reverend Arvids Ziedonis 2017

Dr. Samuel W. Criswell (Student Health Center) death 2020;

Dr. Griffith Dudding death 2016, received Lindback Award;

Charles Walter (Walt) Tremmer III, Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology, death 2021

Winifred E. (Marshall) Bennicoff, worked in Alumni Records Department, death 10/05/2020

Sharon Williams Holland, data analyst in Alumni and Development Office, death 12/21/2020

Dr. Franz Adam Birgel, German Department, death 7/1/2022

Dr. Samuel M. Laposata, Dean of the Evening School, Visiting Professor of Economics, death 9/11/2022

Lester B. Kern, facilities services department for 22 years, death 11/06/2022

David Thomas Moat, death 11/7/2022

William P. Amey (Class of 1957), death 11/23/22

Helena J. Elchaak, staff, death 12/11/2022

Nancy Long, death 1/23/2023

Nelvin Vos, death 3/19/2024: on faculty from 1965-2000, served as Professor of English, English department head, Vice President, Dean of the College; active in Lutheran leadership positions

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the College Archives (Muhlenberg College Collection) Repository

Contact:
Trexler Library
Muhlenberg College
2400 Chew Street
Allentown PA 18104 United States