Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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SENICDRS ' JUINIIORS ' SQPHOMGRES ' FRESI-IMEN

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ADMINISTRATION ' MEMORIALS ' FACLILT

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INAUGURATICDN CTOBER first, nineteen thirty-seven, marked a turning point in the history of Muhlenberg College. lnaugurating a president for the first time in thirty-three years, the college began on that day an academic festival which reached its climax in the inauguration of Dr. Levering Tyson as its fifth president. Preceding Dr. Tyson as President of the college were: Dr. F. A. Muhlen- berg from i867 to l876, Dr. Benjamin Sadtler from i877 to l885, Dr. Theo- dore Seip from i886 to l903, and Dr. John A. W. Haas from i904 to l936. Dean Robert C. Horn served as acting president during the interval between the retirement of Dr. Haas and the coming of Dr. Tyson. Muhlenberg College was honored by having as its guests the most dis- tinguished group of educators and professional leaders ever assembled in the Lehigh Valley. Among the guests were: Dr. F. H. Knubel, president of the United Lutheran Church in America, who held a round table conference with ministers the afternoon prior to the inauguration, Dr. John Ward Studebaker, United States Commissioner of Education, who held a similar conference with the teachers of the Lehigh Valley in the Allentown High School auditorium the same afternoon, and Dr. F. P. Keppel, president of the Carnegie Corpora- tion, who was the inaugural speaker. At 6 P. M. October first, the National Broadcasting Company gave a salute to the college over its Red network-WEAF being the key-station in the East. The entire inaugural ceremony was broadcast over stations WCBA- WSAN of Allentown, and from ll :OO A. M.-l2:OO Noon over the Blue network of the National Broadcasting Company. Short wave during that period took the program to all parts of the world. The inauguration in the College Chapel was preceded by an academic procession across the campus in which representatives of more than l5O in? stitutions and learned societies marched in full academic regalia. Dr. Pfat- teicher, president of the Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania, delivered the charge to the new president. The chapel choir under the direction of Dr. Harold K. Marks rendered musical selections for the occasion. Dr. Tyson was installed by Dr. Reuben T. Butz, president of the Board of Trustees, who pre- sented him with the keys, the charter and the seal of the college. The keys used to unlock the doors of old Muhlenberg were used in the ceremony. Dr. Tyson in his inaugural address acknowledged his responsibilities as head of the institution, and presented his plans for the development of the Greater Muhlenberg. Highlights of the inaugural week-end were: the Inaugural Dinner, pre- sided over by Dean Horn, the Symposium, in which nine nationally prominent professional representatives presented to the small liberal arts college those things the professions expect of them in the training of young men and women: the inaugural Ceremony itself, the football game with St. Lawrence University, and the Inaugural Ball at the Hotel Traylor.