Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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Genera! Administration lll'll.liNliliRG College is a church college of the liberal arts. An institution of the Lutheran Church, it aims to foster Christian principles in students, as well as uphold the ideas of a liberal education. Authority is vested in a Board of Trustees, consisting of thirty-one members. Of these, eighteen are elected by the Ministerium of Pennsylvania, ten by the Board of Trustees, and three by the Alumni Association ofthe College. The Board meets twice a year. A list of present members will be found on page 221. Executive authority for the actual operation of Muhlenberg is vested in the president. Since l957 Dr. Levering Tyson, Litt.D., l.l..D., has served in this position. lt was due principally to his leadership and ellicient administration that Muhlenberg was so successfully guided through the war years and into the present post-war period. A graduate of Gettysburg, Dr. Tyson has been the author of several books and has received many honorary degrees. Through the years Pres- ident Tyson has been tireless in representing the College at various gatherings and conventions of the United Lutheran Church in America and at educational meetings. Dean Robert C. ltlorn, '00, not only continued his work on the Faculty, teaching Creek, Latin, and mathematics during the war, but also continued as Dean of the College. A scholar in Creek of the New Testament times, Dr. I-lorn is the author of several books and pamphlets and at one time was Acting President of Muhlenberg. Mr. l-larry A. lienfer worked ceaselessly during the past years as Registrar and Dean of lfrcslnuieu. A football great in his college days at Albright, he is known to all the students as 1-laps. lt is he who first interviews prospective students, and 'Dean Benfer is also responsible for West l'lall's ellicient functioning as the freshman dormitory. ln a move to keep pace with the growing student body, Trustees in june, 1946, named Dr. Horn Vice-President of the College, made Perry F. Kendig, formerly of the English Department and during the war in the Navy, Dean of Students, and cre- ated the position of Dean of the Faculty. To this ollice Sherwood R. Mercer, formerly a member of the Connecticut State Department of liducation, was named. 'l'f1lhlcft.' Dean Robert C. llorn, recently elected Vice-president ol the College: rigbl, ltlarry A. Bcnler, Registrar and Dean of Freshmen: boliom, Dr. Levering Tyson, MlllllClll7Cfg'S president. tm

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Chapter II ADMINISTRATION and FACULTY From the President July 12, 1946 TO THE EDITORS OF THE CIARLA: Ever since 1893 Ciarla has been a pictorial, personal, and factual record of the students of Muhlenberg and their extra-curricular activities. It has made a distinct historical and sentimental Qin the best sensej contribution to the College. Each succeeding annual has successfully followed a tradition which all of us believe should be continued. To some extent, at least, this statement may seem to contradict the implications in the name of the volume, which, if freely translated means Nonsense! However, Ciarla has won for itself a place in Muhlenberg life which transcends the humorous and comical, no matter how prominently in the past it has called attention to the lighter side of campus existence. The present volume certainly is performing a service to our entire community which in no sense can be adjudged nonsensical. It is erecting a bridge between that happy Qin prospectlj pre-war era, and the as yet unpredictable POSt-War period to which we have been directing our attention ever since the military victory in Europe assured us of complete triumph of our arms over all our Axis enemies. Those few years were momentous ones for Muhlenberg College and the record of them should be set down. This Ciarla has attempted to do and it is performing a valuable service. It was then that the Navy invaded us and for three years the campus was given over to a routine which was entirely foreign to our normal conception of life in a liberal arts college. But Muhlenberg survived. More than that, she enhanced her reputation and to several thousand men who were sent here from all corners of the land demonstrated why the Navy chose this College as an officer training post. We enjoyed the experience. We believe those who were here in this period, whether in or out of uniform, will never regret their tour of duty at this insti- tution. i Ciarla is recording the salient facts of the period and by means of this gap- bridging edition is erecting a connection between the old and the new Muhlenberg which every activity will have to initiate in one form or another. We hope all will be as successful as the editors of this volume have been. Sincerely yours, y . 0' mreefanfp 04011. President The oil portrait of Dr. Levering Tyson, President of Muhlenberg College, shown at left, has been hung in the lounge room of the Chapel. The artist was Leonebel Jacobs. T211

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