Tyson, Levering: Correspondence with alumni, parents, students, 1937 - 1951

File — Box: C-02, Folder: C:014

Identifier: C:014

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes materials relating to each president and interim president from Frederick A. Muhlenberg in 1867 through Kathleen Harring in 2022, including biographical background, selection, inauguration, correspondence, achievements, and resignation/retirement from office.

Includes programs, emails, documents, newspaper clippings, legal papers, interviews, addresses, speeches, and personal letters.

Dates

1937 - 1951

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

Leetters to parents and students note it is necessary to raise tuition; impact of war on college;

Tyson 1938 letter to parents of student George Howatt, regarding college boys stealing apples from the4 orchard basket intended for his instructor; for first time, football team set record by defeating Lehigh and Lafayette in the same season 1939; letter to parents reassuring them that college is secure in entrusting their sons to the college during war times;

Booklet to alumni appealing for help financially 1943; Christmas greeting to alumni;

Letters to parents and students about impact of war on college, need to raise tuition; tells students there is no need to rush into service, nor to seek a college that has ROTC, 1950;