Faculty Department: Theatre Arts, 1993 - 2010

File — Box: N-05

Identifier: N:062

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

1993 - 2010

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

Performance brochures 1993-1994; department newsletter 1989-1992; "muhlenberg.dance.beat." dance newsletter 1997-2006; "Music at Muhlenberg" 2007; newspaper articles on summer music theatre 2005-2010; Charles Richter, Curtis Dretsch;

Parkland Press article with photo "Media People receives awards for Muhlenberg documentary"- issue 7/05/23. The Media People, the longest-running independent film and broadcast video production company in the Lehigh Valley, was awarded the Platinum Award and Gold Award in the 2023 Hermes Creative Awards Festival. Film chronicles the start of the Summer Music Theatre with the arrival of Charles Richter and Curis Dretsch who started the program at Muhlenberg College in 1978. Gregory Roth, adjunct instructor in theatre department, was the videographer and non-linear editor.