Community Engagement: Miscellaneous, 1963 - 2023

File — Box: P-01, Folder: P:007

Identifier: P:007

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes materials relating to community initiatives, community relations and service, college hosted programs, Jefferson School partnership, Personnel Consultation and Testing Bureau, Nineteenth Street engagement, West End/Theatre District.

Includes booklets, newspaper clippings, photos, newsletter, resource manual, spiral bound document by Pennsylvania Downtown Center, pamphlets, brochures, fliers, and research documents.

Dates

Majority of material found within 1963 - 2023

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

Booklet "Muhlenberg and its Neighbors" Community Impact Reports 2006, 2009, 2012; listing of program/project between MC and Allentown sites/institutions (Jefferson Elementary School, Casa Guadalupe, South Mountain Middle School, The Caring Place Youth Development Center, Roosevelt Elementary, Cleveland Elementary, HYPE; brochure 19th Street Experience;

Boy Scout correspondence with President Levering Tyson about physical education faculty teaching scouting training course for college credit 1937;

College-Community Coalition formed by Allentown Mayor William Heydt 1996

'Ministers' League Told Of Realistic Preaching' - newspaper article details college hosts meeting of the Ministers' League of Allentown and vicinity 1963

'Vacation Bible School Parley Set' article 5/3/1963, Robert A. Boyer, professor of physics plans a workshop for church leaders; opening address by Hagen Staack, professor of religion

'Sermons Changing, Cleric Says' article 11/19/1963, Ministers' Leaague of Allentown and vicinity meets on campus

Morning Call article and photo 6/18/2020 - "Operation BBQ gives out free meals at Muhlenberg": Beth Halpern, MC Director of Community Engagement; MC partners with Allentown Health Bureau

Morning Call article and photo 1/04/2023 - "Good Afternoon: Allentown School District kids boost attendance at a Muhlenberg College matinee" - students attend basketball game to cheer on the Mules

Parkland Press article and photo 2/16/2023 - "Allentown Lutherans 'Journey through Lenten Season'" : The Allentown Collabrative Ministries will begin Lenten season with services at Muhlenberg College Egner Chapel, Allentown.

11 page booklet "Muhlenberg and Its Neighbors" includes Message from President Helm, Muhlenberg in the Community, Muhlenberg's Economic Impact, Giving Back to the Community, Board of Associates, Muhlenberg and the Arts Community, Campus Organizations, Muhlenberg and the Business Community, Muhlenberg and the Religious Community, Volunteer Sites.