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Programs and Booklets

 Item — Box: 1

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This collection contains assorted materials relating to general university/college history, activities, and events. Includes news clippings, articles, other periodicals, programs, and papers. Highlights include material documenting the North Hall fire of 1937, issues of the Flyin' Rapier, and other news clippings and articles from local news publications.

Dates

  • 1889 - 2025

Extent

From the Collection: .42 Linear Inches

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Materials Specific Details

Slippery Rock Informational Booklets

-State Teachers College at Slippery Rock Picture Booklet (between 1926-1937)

-Facts About Slippery Rock State College

-You Don’t Have To Be Big To Be Famous (1975?)

Theatre Programs

-“A Lucky Break” A Three Act Comedy by Zelda Sears, dir. Miss Edith Ann Simpson (4/20)

-The Old New Hampshire Home

-“The Haymakers” Operatic Cantata, dir. Lyman S. Leason (11/29)

-Under the Laurels by The Model High School (6/16/1905)

-Haydn’s Oratorio “The Creation” dr. Lyman S. Leason (6/26/1906)

-Class of 1912 Junior Exhibition Up-To-Date America Drama “Caprice” (6/27/1910)

-H.M.S. Pinafore Opera (6/14/1919)

-The Arrival of Kitty by Norrman Lee Swartout dir. Prof. H.L. Headland (10/31/1919)

-The Lion and the Mouse (5/29/1920)

-The Mikado Comic Opera by W.S. Gilbert dir. Miss Joan Easley (6/19/1920)

-“Two Girls Wanted” A Comedy In Three Acts by Gladys Unger dir. Miss Margaret Strunk (5/10/1928)

-“Ermine” Opera by Jakobowski dir. Joseph C. Seiter (5/24 & 5/27/1929)

-A Pageant of History dir. Mrs. Lillian DeArmit and First Annual Inter-Society Contest Bryant Society vs Philomathean Society

-“The Pioneer’s Papoose” Operetta in Two Acts by Otis M. Carrington dir. Mrs. Arnold (3/31/1931) [2]

-H.M.S. Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan Presented by Slippery Rock Senior High School (5/1/1931)

-Pageant Book Commencement (1931)

Music Programs

-Student’s Recital (12/15)

-Concert dir. Lyman S. Leason (6/28/1904)

-The Cantata of Esther the Beautiful Queen dir. Lyman S. Leason (12/16 & 12/17/1904)

-Closing Concert of the Winter Term dir. Lyman S. Leason (3/18/1905)

-Concert dir. Lyman S. Leason (2/22/1906)

-Commencement Concert dir. Lyman S. Leason (6/23/1908)

-Cantata “The Rose Maiden” by Frederic H. Cowen dir. Miss Joan Easley (2/10/1919)

-Two Cantatas dir. Miss Joan Easley (3/8/1920)

-Student Recital (3/17/1920)

-Organ Recital dir. Miss Joan Easley (6/20/1920)

-Handel’s Oratorio “The Messiah” dir. Lyman S. Leason (6/27/1905)

-Madrigal Club Concert (5/13/1931)

Religious Services

-Christmas Vespers (12/14)

-Easter Services (4/4/1920)

-Vesper Service (4/18/1920)

-Vesper Service (4/25/1920)

-Vesper Service (12/9/1923)

-Baccalaureate Service (6/1/1924)

-Vesper Service (12/14/1924)

-Vesper Service (2/27/1927)

-Vesper Service (12/9/1928) [2]

-Baccalaureate (5/25/1930)

-Baccalaureate Service (6/20/1920)

-Christmas Vespers (12/16/1928)

-College Chapel (11/11/1930)

-Vesper Service (10/9/1932)

-Vesper Services (1/14/1934)

-Vespers (2/28/1937)

-Baccalaureate Service (1/17/1943)

-Baccalaureate Service (5/23/1943)

-Baccalaureate Service (5/28/1944)

Other Programs

-Halloween Menu (10/31/1919)

-Third Educational Conference (11/15/1919)

-Commencement (6/23/1920)

-Ye Old English Yuletide Revels (12/20/1929)

-Intercollegiate Debate Schedule (1930)

-Fifty Years Later Football Schedule (1973)

-Program of the Thirty-fifth Anniversary Reunion and Luncheon of the Class of 1897 (5/21/1932)

-Laying of the Cornerstone Maltby Library (5/21/1938) [2]

-First Annual Banquet Allegheny County Alumni of S.R.S.N.S. (3/24/1905)

-Second Annual Banquet Allegheny County Alumni of S.R.S.N.S. (3/23/1906)

-Third Annual Banquet Allegheny Country Alumni of S.R.S.N.S. (3/20/1908)

Repository Details

Part of the Slippery Rock University Archives and Special Collections Repository

Contact:
315 Bailey Library
Slippery Rock University
Slippery Rock PA 16057
724-738-2740