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Episode Eleven: Scene Three- "A year of battles, victories, defeats, discouragements, advances, and retreats, the war comes nearer to the quiet hills along the Delaware, but men fight on, wounded and bleeding, dying for a dream of freedom and an end…

Clergy, choirs, and congregations of Allentown area churches join in opening the Bicentennial Week at a great outdoor vesper service on the Muhlenberg athletic field. A challenge that America return to the faith of its forefathers was sounded on Dr.…

Episode Eleven: Scene Three- "Through the dim night in masterly retreat along the Perkiomen, past the church at Trappe, with muffled drums and bugles hushed, the patriot armies march, march on and on, with sure and rhythmic tread, and hope held high,…

(left to right) Dr. E. P. Pfatteicher, President of the Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania, who preached the sermon; Dr. Conrad Wilker, pastor of St. Michael's Lutheran Church, Allentown, a member of the Muhlenberg Board of Trustees, and chairman…

Episode Eleven: Scene Four- "The time draws near the Christmas Festival when hearts turn home to hearth and family. Bitter the winter wind, and sharp the sleet and snow when General Muhlenberg rides home from Valley Forge to see his wife and child.…

This service flag, honoring Muhlenberg men serving in the armed forces of their country, was dedicated at the outdoor service and then placed in the college chapel. The Muhlenberg Bicentennial commemorated the two-hundredth anniversary of the arrival…

Episode Eleven: Scene Five. The Muhlenberg Bicentennial commemorated the two-hundredth anniversary of the arrival in America of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg. It was held at Muhlenberg College from May 24 to June 1, 1942. The pageant "For God and…

More than 2,600 boys and girls of the Allentown public schools held their sixth annual music festival on the campus and remained as guests for the first performance of the Bicentennial Pageant, "For God and Country." Theme of the music festival was…

Episode Eleven: Scene Five- "See Muhlenberg's brigade with bayonet creeping by night along the British flank. Silent they move with stealthy steps and slow; and at the signal storm the strong redoubt. Yorktown has fallen; victory is ours! Our flag…

Mayor George F. Erich and President Levering Tyson formally open the week of tribute to the distinguished American family for whom Muhlenberg was named. The Muhlenberg Bicentennial commemorated the two-hundredth anniversary of the arrival in America…

Episode Eleven: Scene Five- "Cease firing! The fratricidal strife is o'er. The fight for independence has been won; where once was bondage, liberty shall be."
"Our fathers' God! to Thee/ Author of Liberty/ To Thee we sing:/ long may our freedom's…

Mayor Erich voices the community's tribute to the College that has been one of its most important citizens for nearly one hundred years. The Muhlenberg Bicentennial commemorated the two-hundredth anniversary of the arrival in America of Henry…

Episode Twelve: Muhlenberg bids farewell to his children. "Long was the way and hard. my sons, from darkness into light, but now the land is free. The future is before you. Choose your way to build this new America, forgetting not the Holy…

America's gracious First Lady, Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, begins her unforgettable day on the Muhlenberg Campus. She drove from Philadelphia to Allentown with Mrs. Levering Tyson, accompanied by two city policemen, one of them Edwin Geisinger of…

Epilogue: Scene One: "The speaker of the House of Representatives, Frederick Muhlenberg from Pennsylvania, addresses the President of the United States." The Muhlenberg Bicentennial commemorated the two-hundredth anniversary of the arrival in America…

Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Tyson escorted by Chief of Police Arthur V. Yohe and Seargent Fred Blose. The Muhlenberg Bicentennial commemorated the two-hundredth anniversary of the arrival in America of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg. It was held at Muhlenberg…

Epilogue: Scene Two: "No education is complete unless it prepares a man to discharge all his duties properly in the world..." The Muhlenberg Bicentennial commemorated the two-hundredth anniversary of the arrival in America of Henry Melchior…

Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Tyson. The Muhlenberg Bicentennial commemorated the two-hundredth anniversary of the arrival in America of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg. It was held at Muhlenberg College from May 24 to June 1, 1942. The pageant "For God and…

Mrs. Roosevelt with Mrs. William F. Curtis and Dr. Dale Moore. The Muhlenberg Bicentennial commemorated the two-hundredth anniversary of the arrival in America of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg. It was held at Muhlenberg College from May 24 to June 1,…

Beneath the towers of the College that lives as a monument to pioneers who helped found the ideals of freedom and democracy on the shores: (l to r) Mrs. Tyson; Mrs. Gordon Williams, President of the Women's Missionary Society of the Lutheran…