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Accession #MU2015/43
TopicManchester College: Promotional
TitlePromotional Piece for Manchester College
Size1 File Folder
LocationMC General File: Promotions
CitationPromotional Piece for Manchester College, MU2015/43, Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Funderburg Library, Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana.
AccessResearchers are responsible for determining copyright status of archived materials where this is relevant to their intended use of the materials.
ProvenanceWylan Becker Shultz, MC Classof 1948, son of Helen Anderson Becker
Scope and Content

Promotional piece for Manchester College circa pre-1930:

"Greetings from Our School, Your School, A School for All."  On the recto is a drawing of the MC campus, and on the verso is the song composed by Gladys Dicky Thompson.  The piece is cut and scored so that it can be folded to stand upright on a table.

Date of Accession29 June 2015
Bio History Note

Wylan Becker Shultz (MC Class of 1948) write the following description:

"It was in my mother's things.  She was Helen B. Anderson, later Becker, when she went to summer sessions at Manchester and taught at Etna Green during winters.


In pencil- the composer/songwriter of this "Manchester College" song is identified a being Gladys Dicky Thompson (MC student 1911 - 1913).  See more information on Ms. Thompson in Otho Winger's book, "Memories of...Manchester."

 


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