Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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HENRY M. M. RICHARDS A.B., M.B.A., Ph.D. Dean of Faculty HARRY A. BENFER, A.B., A.M. Director of Admissions and Director of W est Hall JOHN J. REED. A.B., A.M., Ph.D. Advisor to Student Activities

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j. CONRAD SEEGERS Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D. President , Muhlenberg College PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE To the Class of 1955 — This book is a record of four important years of your lives. 1 hope they have been happy years. Certainly they have been eventful. I suspect that in retrospect they seem to have been very short years, even though when you entered col- lege they seemed, in prospect, almost interminable. As you leaf through this CIARLA, from time to time, now and in the days to come, I hope this record of these years will do more than simply recall old associations and friends. That is, of course, a primary reason for such a book, but the CIAREA can transcend that simple purpose. I hope it will lead you to a continuing examination of yourself, and of the use to which you will put your college education. The Muhlenberg College Annual Bulletin always carries a trenchant and significant statement voiced by Frederick Muhlenberg. “No education is complete unless it prepares a man to discharge all his duties properly in this world and qualifies him for the rewards and employments of eternity.’ Thomas Huxley spoke of a liberal education as producing a man whose “body is the ready servant of his will”; and “whose passions are trained to come to heel, . . . the servant of a tender conscience.” This man. Huxley continues, will have “learned to love all beauty, whether of nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself. Such criteria and ideals are not learned or achieved in four years. They are on-going. If they are to dominate one’s life they must be reviewed and consciously nourished. We hope these ideals have come to you during the four years this book records. We hope that as you look at these pages you will be constantly reminded of them. And finally, we wish for you success and happiness in your chosen fields, and want to remind you that your college will follow your careers with deep interest and concern. Sincerely. JCS 10

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ADMINISTRATION At the beginning of the 1954-55 college year, the administrative offices at Muhlenberg showed various changes in personnel. Dean Sherwood R. Mercer who left to assume a position as Dean at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy was replaced by Dr. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards. Dr. Richards, for- merly at Temple University, assumed his new duties as Dean of Faculty on August 1, 1954. Filling a newly created position of Advisor to Student Activities was Dr. John J. Reed of the History Department. With the departure of Mr. Donald C. Laubenstein. his position as Alumni Secretary was assumed by Mr. Bruce Romig, a Muhlenberg alumnus bimself. Assuming other new duties were Mrs. Helen Bailey, Muhlenberg’s new Director of Publicity and Florence Miller who assumed the post of Recorder. First Row: John R. McAuley. Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds; Helen B. Bailey, A.B., Director of Publicity; George A. Frounfelker, Jr., Ph.B., A.M., Director of Records; Second Row: Bruce R. Romig, B.S., Alumni Secretary; Charles R. Stecker, Jr., A.B., Assistant Treasurer; Howard M. MacGregor, B.S., Treasurer; William V. Nixon, Ph.B.. Director of Development.