Programs:

Manchester College President's Club and Otho Winger Society Annual Dinnner, Inauguration Weekend, 21 October 1994 - with a brief description of each president along with humorous quips.

The Otho Winger Society, Annual Breakfast, 24 May 2002, 31 May 2012.

Otho Winger Society - descriptive brochure.

The President's Club - descriptive brochure.

The booklet is called “Beaker Breakers’ Bi-Weekly” and was put out during the National Science Foundation Summer Chemistry Program at Manchester College.  It has was appears to be getting-to-know-you games and funny/interesting quips about participants.  This booklet is undated. 

Daily Vacation Bible School:

Stangle, Alice, 3 March 1926 and Young, Edna, "Daily Vacation Bible School," 13 March 1924.  Both cards have quips (for perhaps a talk) on the verso.

Materials from Bill Eberly's files that describe his educational history, the development of Manchester's Environmental Science and public school educational programs, the history of Koinonia, syllabi, student notes (confidential), research data on Indiana and other lakes, Cordier biographical material, Indiana history, and Manchester College quips.

• Manchester College History.
• Interesting facts about the college and notable individuals associated with the college, included in information given to admissions volunteers.
• History timeline and quips and interesting stories.
• Manchester College History:  Memories of Mollie Blough Forrer, Manchester College alumna, Class of 1922.

"Ye Olde Tyme Concert At Ye College Chapel." circa 1917.

• The cast of players and singers includes individuals graduating in 1917, 1918, 1922...so the program probably took place 1917 or earlier.  This humorous event quips:
• In Ye Borough of North Manchester, On Ye 19th Day of November.  Ye Doors Will be Open at Earlie Candle Light.  Ye Synging Will Begin at 7:45 by Ye Tymebeater's watch.
• N. B.  Lester Bowser will attend to ye snuffin' of ye candles.
• N. B.  If at any tyme ye desire to heare ye sweet strains again, ye will clap ye hands and not stampe or scrape ye unseemlie.
• N. B.  Ye syngers will bring ye tune books, and slippery elm for ye voice, less they syng falslie.
• N. B.  A solemn silence should prevade ye assembly; yet peradventure some of ye tunes be funny, a little laughter may be indulged, but ye listeners are not to think they can do better than ye syngers.

Quips and notes of indeterminate authorship found scrawled on the back of old student cards.  Circa 1938.

Vernon Schwalm's family and personally related materials,including family genealogy, family history, biographical sketch, resume, staement written for honorary degree,  "Oak Leaves" article recalling the campus during WWII, letters of appreciation. Family letters and letters from those who are "like family." Early photograph of Vernon and Florence Studebaker Schwalm and intimate letters between husband and wife. Personal correspondence regarding hospitalization, insurance and financial matters.Some materials ar confidential and are marked accordingly. Folder 148 - card from Schwalm's mother requesting that he does not move to "the wild west" (probably Kansas).