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Drown Memorial Hall

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Alumni Endowment Fund, 1906-1919

 File — Volume 0229, Item: 007
Scope and Contents

3 copies of a signed "subscription fund" are loose in the front -- Many loose memos, letters, etc. about Alumni Fund scattered -- Letter by H.P. Talbot of MIT to Drinker about Drown Memorial Fund contribution of $1500 - Jan 30, 1906.

Dates: 1906-1919

Beta Chi House Photograph Album, Circa 1950s

 Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0017
Abstract

The collection of photographs is a nostalgic look at fraternity life in the 1950s. Possibly it was composed and presented on the occasion of the retirement of the gentleman to whom the album is dedicated – Willie Johnson. Mr. Johnson was an African American who lived on the premises of the Beta House at least until the mid 1960s employed as general factotum.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1950-1955; 1950-1966

Gregory C. Lee, LU 1937

 Collection
Identifier: BA055
Abstract

Personal collection of Lehigh University winter photographs, graduation photos, military airplanes and armament from ROTC training program at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.

Dates: 1933 - 1939

Jacob Mark Frey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0068
Abstract Collection of correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings gathered by J. Mark Frey, related to Lehigh University, Lehigh YMCA, Chinese students, Bethlehem Bach Choir and Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Frey was the secretary of Lehigh YMCA and involved with Americanization and naturalization classes for Bethlehem Steel’s immigrant workers and an enthusiast of the Bethlehem Bach Choir. The collection provides a valuable picture of one employee’s life at Lehigh University in the...
Dates: 1916-1942; Majority of material found in 1919

Women's Club of Lehigh University

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0302
Abstract

A social history of faculty wives’ activities within Lehigh University’s history as an all- male school when socialization for women outside the home was not a common event is reflected in this collection. Gender, social and economic changes occurred to break down the class system in place among the faculty and their wives. The Club changed as women’s economical and career paths took them outside the home and beyond their faculty husbands’ own career.

Dates: 1906-2010