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…
Wilmer Cressman receives his diploma along with President Tyson's personal greeting as John DiFranco waits for his. The Muhlenberg Bicentennial commemorated the two-hundredth anniversary of the arrival in America of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg. It was…
"I present for the degree of Doctor of Science a graduate of this institution in the class of 1897, a distinguished physician who was graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1901. His interest in scientific medicine is well known. For years he…
Westward view of Dining Commons (Walson Hall), ca. 1944. Muhlenberg's Dining Commons was completed in 1916, and two wooden wings were added in 1943 to accommodate the Navy V-12 Unit students. Now renamed Walson Hall, since 2001 the building has…
View of Brown Hall and lawn, ca. 1940s. Renamed for Dr. John D.M. Brown in the 1960s, the building originally served as the home of the Allentown Preparatory School. By the late 1930s, APS had closed and the building became a Muhlenberg dormitory…