Founders’ Days and Commencements , 1906 - 1916

August 2 Four page speech Extension School courses mentions Christmas Hall and Professors Hughes and Drown October 11, 1906 Founder’s Day four page speech mentions Profs. Charles L. Doolittle, Thornburg and Ogburn, John A. Brashear, Robert H. Sayre Observatory, Zenith telescope October 13, 1910 Four page speech discusses first Founder’s Day October 9, 1879 following Judge Packer’s death, acknowledges John Fritz as lone survivor of that era October 1911 Two page speech installation of bronze portrait of Packer in Packer Memorial Chapel October 1912 Two page speech refers to bronze portrait and Board of Trustees’ president Dr. Henry R. Price ‘70 October 4, 1913 Two page speech notes that the Class of 1870 was the first class who entered the opening of the University and Henry R. Price was a member of that class, also notes Mansfield Merriman and Edward H. Williams founder of Tau Beta Pi at Lehigh

20 page typed speech notes Andrew Carnegie’s gift of Taylor Hall, Drinker’s visit to Judge Packer’s office in Philadelphia in 1878, Henry Coppée as first University president, Prof. Roepper of Geology, H. Stanley Goodwin of Civil Engineering formerly of Lehigh Valley Railroad, Richard P. Rothwell a consultant of Mining and Metallurgy who with Miles Rock and Drinker would walk to the Friedensville zinc mines, mentions Coxe Mining Laboratory, Robert H. Sayre who projected and built the Lehigh Valley Railroad, Elisha P. Wilbur and son Warren A. Wilbur, Dr. Garrett B. Linderman, William H. Sayre, Charles Brodhead, Robert A. Lamberton, Thomas M. Drown, James Myers a long time janitor of Lehigh, Rev. William Bacon Stevens, William A. Lathrop, Herr, Meaker, Harding, Chandler, Schober, Wm. A. Lamberton, Kroeh, Ringer, Bird, Worcester, Stewartson, DuBois, Merriman, Frazier, Kimball, Williams, chapel donated by Mary Packer Cummings, Mr. & Mrs. Chas. M. Schwab, Williams Hall named for honored alumnus E. H. Williams Jr.