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eaumont Newhall’s classic

The History of Photography

tells us that in August of

1839, Louis Daguerre and a

colleague made public the process for

creating the early photographic images still

called daguerreotypes. News spread quickly

throughout the world. Later that year,

Joseph Saxton made one of the earliest

American daguerreotypes, a tiny image

about one by one-and-a-half inches of the

upper stories and rooftops of some

buildings crowned by the cupola of the

Philadelphia High School. Thus, the picture

of an academic structure stands at the head

of the history of American photography,

and school photographs have continued to

be a prominent part of that history. By

1853, the year in which an Albright

Seminary was first proposed, Newhall tells

us that there were 86 portrait galleries in

New York City. “Each American city and

most of the larger towns had several

daguerrean galleries,” and improved

photographic processes soon followed.

The beginnings of AIbright College are

coincident with the rise of photography,

and it is no accident that some of the most

moving records of our past are

photographic images. Like most American

colleges, we have managed to commission

and retain a couple of dozen portraits in oil,

largely of our presidents. We feel we must

make this gesture to the primacy of

painting, but our real visual history is

photographic. One of the earliest images in

the following collection is of a building at

Central Pennsylvania College in New Berlin,

Pennsylvania, an ancestral institution. The

handsome, four-story, brick, mansard-

roofed structure with a fancy

scroll-saw-work porch is topped by, yes, a

cupola. Cupolas, or lanterns, were de

rieueur for academic edifices to the

nineteenth century. Perhaps they suggested

the light of learning.

Photographs of nineteenth-century

dormitory rooms, laboratories, and social

spaces exert a particular fascination. Slowly,

we pick details out of the Victorian clutter.

Sometimes we are surprised to identify the

forerunner of an item still part of an

Albright College education, a reminder of

continuity in our liberal arts tradition. But

sometimes we see books whose titles we

cannot read, musical instruments whose

names we may have forgotten, stuffed

Union SeminaryestablishedNew Berlin, Pa.1856

1856 1860 1865 1870 1875


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animals of unidentifiable species, strange

scientific equipment of uncertain function,

and pennants commemorating

indiscernible allegiances and rivalries, Old

communities such as Albright College

involve loss as well as preservation, and

despite the efforts of the college’s archivists

and historians, much knowledge

disappears with the last member of each

class. What were the thoughts of these

young nineteenthcentury men with stiff

collars and large moustaches, of those

young women with such fine posture? The

serious-looking, carefully-arranged

members of bands, fraternities, and athletic

teams: what were they like when they

broke their poses after the photographer’s

flash was over and the smoke blew away?

Some photographs surprise most of us

with unexpected revelations: another Mohn

Hall on the old Myerstown campus, the

Union SeminaryNew Berlin, Pa.re-chartered as Central Pennsylvania College1887

Church Schism1891

Albright Collegiate Instituteestablished byUnited Evangelical ChurchMyerstown, Pa.1895

Albright Collegiate Institutere-chartered as Albright CollegeMyerstown, Pa.1898

Central Pennsylvania Collegeand Albright Collegemerge asAlbright CollegeMyerstown, Pa.1902

1880 1885 1890 1895 1900 1905 1910 1915 1920 1925

Albright Collegeand Schuylkill Collegemerge as Albright CollegeReading, Pa.1928

Schuylkill Seminaryestablished6th & Walnut Sts.Reading, Pa.1881

Schuylkill Seminaryremoved to Fredericksburg, Pa. 1886

Schuylkill Seminaryof the Evangelical Associationreturns to the city ofReading, Pa.1902

Schuylkill Seminaryre-chartered as Schuylkill CollegeReading, Pa.1923


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interior of White Chapel in the 1920s

showing stained glass windows, a home

economics lab in the basement of the

present Masters Hall. Some faces stand out

in group shots: a slight, small, young Dr.

Gingrich, one of Albright’s most

distinguished scholars, gazing thoughtfully

at the camera; a serious young man who

looks directly at us in the “Aviation Training

Group”; and many smiling faces in the

photograph of students and faculty posed

in front of Memer-Pfeiffer Hall of Science

on December 5, 194 1, just two days

before Pearl Harbor. There are also some

fine, individual shots: Bill Marlow standing

against a blackboard, John Scholl leaping

high on the basketball court, and the

young woman at a recent homecoming

with a huge grin and a paw painted on her

face, her clapping hands parted to reveal

the Albright “A” on her sweater.

As the twentieth-century advances the

smiles get bigger and some of the shots

get wilder. The demure maidens in white

on May Day in 1928 give way to oozeball

revelers in the 1990s. The cool classicism of

Oedipus Rex performed against the

columns of Science Hall gives way to the

hilarity of Jacques Brel in 1985. Some

photographs appeal to particular groups of

alumni: John Potsklan’s acceptance

telegram of 1953; tablecloths, a waitress,

and “proper” dress in the old dining hall;

the Campus Center’s former snack area

with its array of machines; the sculpture in

the rotunda of the Center for the Arts;

painting paws on North 13th Street;

ponding.

I draw one lesson from this album of

Albright photographs spanning nearly a

century and a half. The Albright tradition is

much more about people than places or

buildings. I have a number of college and

university books of photographs on my

shelves, and they contain many fewer faces

than does ours. These other books tend to

feature artful shots of buildings on snowy

days, close-ups of quaint architectural

details, pictures of statuary, campus vistas

shot through a screen of spring blossoms,

fall foliage along favorite walks, and so

forth. Perhaps the many moves and

mergers during the early days of what was

eventually to become our Albright shook us

loose from all of that. Initially, we were

more interested in forging a collegiate

community. As some of the early

photographs in this collection attest, we left

some rather impressive buildings behind.

Whether by design or just because it is the

way Albrightians operate, those who chose

the photographs for this book emphasized

faces—Albright faces. Look at them. They

tell us a lot about who we were and who

we are. �

–Richard G. Androne


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Founda�ions�


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Championship girls basketball team, SchuylkillSeminary, 1906. Coach J. Fred Bohler, class of1908, is pictured in the center.

Two students relax in their dormitoryroom at Central Pennsylvania College,1898-99. Photo by Chas. H. Venus.

The Albright College Band onthe steps of Mohn Hall, Albright

College at Myerstown.

The inside of the gymnasium,Schuylkill Seminary, Reading, Pa.




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1856JANUARY 3 - Union Seminary established New Berlin, Union

County, Pa. Enrollment: 200�The newly-formed Republican Party holds its first assembly

in Pittsburgh, Pa.�James Buchanan of Pennsylvania is elected president.�Harpers’s Weekly magazine is launched in New York.�Baseball is referred to for the first time as the “national

pastime” in The Spirit of the Times, a sports newspaper.

1861APRIL 12 - Civil war begins between the

Union north and the Confederate south.�Western Union completes first

transcontinental telegraph line.

1863Union Seminary closes for two years

because of finances and the war.

1865APRIL 14 - President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by

John Wilkes Booth.JUNE 2 - Civil War ends.�Lewis Carroll publishes Alice’s Adventures in

Wonderland.

1856 18651860 1870

1858APRIL 12 - The Neocosmian Society at Union Seminary

debates “Was the repeal of the Missouri Compromise just?”

1859�Origin of Species by Charles Darwin goes on sale.

1860Population of Reading, Pennsylvania is 23,162.

Physics lab, Central Pennsylvania College, 1898-99.

Physics lab, Central Pennsylvania College, 1898-99.


Schuylkill Seminary guards, Fredericksburg, Pa., May 29, 1889.

1874�The trolley introduced in Reading.

1881�Schuylkill Seminary established in downtown

Reading, Pa. at 6th and Walnut Streets.�First customer of Edison Electrical Illuminating

Company in New York receives electricity.

1886�Schuylkill Seminary moves to Fredericksburg, Pa.

1887�Union Seminary re-chartered as Central Pa. College.

Enrollment: 129 males, 71 females.�150,000 people in the U.S. have telephone service.

1888�White Chapel built at the then Episcopal Diocesan School,

Selwyn Hall. (As part of Schuylkill College and Albright College it was a theater, a gymnasium, an armory, and housed the artdepartment.)


1875 1880 1885

1876�Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.

Old Main, Albright College at Myerstown.


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1890 19001895 1905

1892�The Albright Gymnasium,

now Alumni Memorial Hall, is built.

1898�Albright Collegiate Institute chartered as

Albright College, Myerstown.�Spanish-American War is sparked due to

the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana �Harbor. Most Americans blame Spain for

the attack and war ensues.�Cornflakes are introduced to the U.S. by

John Harvey & William Keith Kellogg.

1900�Kappa Upsilon Phi, the first fraternity at

Albright College in Myerstown, is established.

1902�Central Pennsylvania College and Albright

College merge as Albright College at Myerstown.�Schuylkill Seminary returns to Reading, Pa.,

on the grounds of Selwyn Hall, a former Episcopal Diocesan School for boys. Buildings wired for electricity.

�Pepsi-Cola created.

1903�Alma Mater “The Red and the

White,” sung for the first time.�First silent movie, “The Great

Train Robbery.”�First flight at Kitty Hawk.

1905�Einstein proposes his

theory of relativity.

1895�Albright Collegiate Institute chartered by United

Evangelical Church, Myerstown, Pa.�First motion picture shown to a paying public is

projected by the Lumiere Brothers in France.�First professional football game is played in Latrobe, Pa.

Central Pennsylvania College faculty (l to r) Albin M.Wonder, professor of mathematics and Latin, andlibrarian; George H. Dosch, professor of Greek; CharlesA. Derr, professor of mathematics, French and German;William P. Winter, Ph.D., professor of natural sciencesand German; Maud V. Bowen, instructor in instrumentalmusic; Aaron Ezra Gobble, president; Ida R. Bowen,preceptress, professor of the English language andliterature. 1900-01.

Union Seminary, New Berlin, Pa., was re-chartered in1887 as Central Pennsylvania College. Photo by Chas. H.Venus.

A fraternity in Old Main, Albright College at Myerstown.


1910 1915 1920


Dr. Harry N. Conser, tutor of English branches, professor of natural sciences & German, Central Pennsylvania College, 1893.

1906�The Albright seal with the

lamp, the laurel and the words“veritas et justitia” is designed.

1908�Ford introduces the Model-T.

1909�Circus Maximus, which later

becomes Albright Stadium, is built.�Plastic is invented.

1911�Roald Amundsen reaches

the South Pole.

1912�The luxury liner, Titanic, crashes

into an iceberg during her maidenvoyage.

�The parachute is invented.

1914�World War I begins in Europe.

1917�U.S. enters war.�Russian revolution

overthrows the czar.

1918�Allies win World War I.�Student Army Training Corps

established at Albright College.�Worldwide influenza epidemic kills

five million. Albright arts and music building converted into emergency hospital quarters, one student dies.

1919�18th Amendment to the

Constitution prohibits thesale, manufacturing anddistribution of alcoholicbeverages.



1904 football team. Charles S. “Pop” Kelchner (third row, fourth fromright), professor of Latin, French and Spanish, director of physical cultureand baseball coach, was appointed in 1898.

Central Pennsylvania College baseball team.


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A parade along Penn Street in downtown Reading is held to celebrate“Consolidation Day,” the merger of Schuylkill College with Albright College.

Consolidation Day, 1929. Dr. Warren Teel, president of Albright College, welds twochains together symbolizing the merger of Schuylkill College and Albright College.

The May Queen and her court pose in front of Mohn Hall, Albright College at Myerstown,1928. The observance of May Day and the election of a May Queen began at Schuylkill

Seminary in 1922 as part of the campus-wide celebration of spring.

INTERESTING FACT: The Narrator at Schuylkill College reports that a “May King” was selectedfrom the senior class each May. The “May King” was paraded around in a cart through town,brought to Sylvan Lake and thrown in. A royal water battle ensued as the ladies cheered from

their dormitory windows. (Possibly the start of the traditional Albright “ponding”?)





1920 1925

1920�Administration Building (now Masters Hall) built at Schuylkill College.�19th Amendment to the Constitution allows women to vote nationwide.�Lie detector invented.

1922�First May Day celebration at Albright in Myerstown.�James Joyce publishes Ulysses.

1923�Schuylkill Seminary re-chartered as Schuylkill College, Reading, Pa.

1928�Greater Albright College Reading, Pa., formed by merger of Albright

College, Myerstown, Pa. and Schuylkill College, Reading, Pa.�Amelia Earhart is first woman ever to cross the Atlantic as a passenger.

1929�Teel Hall dedicated as the Evangelical School of Theology.�Science Hall built. (Not named Merner-Pfeiffer Hall of

Science till 1936.)�Stock market crash causes worldwide depression that

lasts until World War II.

Track and field in Shirk Stadium, 1938.


1930 1935 1940


1930�Albright Class of 1914 purchases a Howard Clock

that is installed in the tower of White Chapel.??????�Pluto discovered. 1936

�The Gymnasium remodeled and the buildingdedicated as Alumni Memorial Library.

�Science Hall renovated and renamed Merner-PfeifferHall of Science.

1939�World War II breaks

out in Europe.

Home economics lab in the basement of (present) Masters Hall.

World War I memorial at the corner of 13th & UnionStreets. The administration building (current Masters Hall)is in the background, 1930s.



Inside White Chapel. Pictured in the front row are: (l to r)Wilson I. Miller, registrar, dean, professor of education; LewisE. Smith, Hh.D., professor of economics, history and politicalscience; Clarence A. Horn, professor of biology and pre-medstudies; F. Wilbur Gingrich, Ph.D., professor of Greek, Latin,German and Bible studies; H. William Voigt, Ph.D., professorof English; W. Wentzel, George W. Taylor, Ph.D., professor offinance and accounting; Warren F. Teel, Ph.M., principal,professor of mental and moral philosophy; J. Warren Klein,Litt.D., vice president, treasurer, professor of ancient andmodern history; Schlichter, ????????. 1924-25.

Sylvan Lake and springhouse atSchuylkill Seminary in Reading, Pa., in

the early 1920s.

Two Kappa Upsilon Phi brothers, 1935. KappaUpsilon Phi was the first fraternity established at

Albright College. It began in 1900.



A tug-of-war at Old Union Canal during a May Day celebration, May 12, 1938.



Students perform a scene from the Greek play Oedipus Rex on the steps of Science Hall, 1935.


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War an� Peace



Students and faculty pose for a groupshot in front of Merner-Pfeiffer Hall of

Science on December 5, 1941.

The interior of Alumni Hall when it served as the College library.

The Physical Education Building,early 1950s. Now called the BollmanCenter, it was named posthumouslyfor George C. Bollman, trusteepresident from 1953 to 1971 andavid athletics supporter.





1940 1945

1941�U.S. enters war after the

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. 1943�Seventh College Training

Detachment activated at Albright.Government takes over Selwyn Halland the Administration Building tohouse 200 enlisted students.

1945�U.S. drops two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,

Japan, leading to the end of the war.

1948�Joseph E. Coleman is first African-American

graduate of Albright College.�Student Union Building, donated by the federal

government, is transported from Camp Patrick Henry in Virginia and assembled at Albright.

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1951�Albright Court purchased.

1953�Structure of the DNA molecule discovered

by Crick, Watson and Wilkins.

1954�Bollman Center completed.

1956�Elvis Presley appears on television on the Ed Sullivan Show.

1950�U.N. troops enter Korea and stay until 1954.

1. During the war years the student council kept in active touch with Albrightians serving inthe war. The Albrightian, the student newspaper, was sent regularly and special gifts andgreetings were sent at Christmas time to every student in service.

2. Albright students re-create “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima,” a famous photographdepicting U.S. servicemen raising a United States flag atop Mount Suribachi during theBattle of Iwo Jima in World War II, 1945.

3. In 1943 the Seventh College Training Detachment (Air Crew) arrived on Albright’scampus, taking over Selwyn Hall, Selwyn Hall Annex and the third floors of theAdministration and Theological buildings for their use. They were instructed in militarytraining by Army staff and in mathematics, physics, history, geography and English byCollege faculty. Some of the men returned after the war to complete their collegeeducation at Albright.

4. Members of Pi Alpha Tau, often referred to as the “PATs,” in Sherman Cottage (nowPushman Cottage). Pi Alpha Tau was the first sorority established at Albright College. Itbegan in 1926.

5. In the 50s, dining at Albright was not just a daily function, it was an event. As studentsentered the Dining Hall in the Selwyn Hall Annex, they were given seating arrangementsfor evening meals, with a senior host and hostess at each table. In addition, a dress codewas enforced for evening meals. Women wore dresses and men wore coats and ties.

6. Members of the class of 1956 settle into their dorm room.

7. Albright Lions fans wait outside the entrance to Shirk Stadium at 12th & Exeter Streets.

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Biology professor Marcus Green was known to terrify pre-med students with his extremely high expectations for their academic performance (and with the skeleton that hung in his classroom).But he was also loved by those who learned a great deal from him. Green taught at Albright for 40 years, retiring in 1971.



Members of the ArmyAir Force do calisthenicsin Albright’s Stadium.

Joseph E. Coleman ’48, pictured with theDaymens Association, was the first African-American graduate of Albright College. Hewent on to be a research chemist, patent

attorney, author and Philadelphia’s CityCouncil president from 1980 to 1992.



John A. Potsklan telegrammed President Harry Masters on August 19, 1953 accepting an offer to serve as assistant coach and assistant professor of physical education. In 1955, Potsklan becamehead coach of football and went on to lead the Albright Lions to the longest unbeaten streak at any level of football in the United States from October 31, 1959 through the 1961 season.


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A Time � Socia� Chan�e



Leading a 1960s academic procession are Harry V. Masters, Ph.D., LL.D., Ped.D.,L.H.D., president; George W. Walton, Ph.B., D.Sc., academic dean, professor ofgeology; Eugene H. Barth, Ph.D., professor of religion and philosophy; Clyde A.Harding, professor of English; and Benjamin Brown, associate professor of English.

More than 700 students and faculty members successfullyengineered the transfer of 70,000 volumes during a period of about

eight hours by forming a human assembly line that stretched fromAlumni Memorial Hall (the former library) to the new F. Wilber

Gingrich Library in the Administration Building, 1963.





1960 1965

1960�Albright creates first

undergraduate psychobiologyprogram in the nation.

�Merner-Pfeiffer-KleinMemorial Chapel built.

1961�Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is the

first human being to travel into space.

1963�November 22 — President

John F. Kennedy assassinated.

1964�The Gingrich Library and Administration

building opens its doors and transfers books from Alumni Memorial Library.

�The Gulf of Tonkin incident intensifies America’s involvement in Vietnam.

�The Beatles come to America.

1965�Walton Hall built.�Science Hall renovated,

Clarence A. Horn Wing added.

1967�Campus Center built.

1968�Civil rights leader Reverend Martin

Luther King Jr. assassinated.

1969�April - Faculty “Teach-In”on

Vietnam. Student sit-in in library lasts four days.

�First African-American professor, Hammett Worthington-Smith, joins faculty.

�Neil Armstrong is first man on the moon.

�Woodstock

The Marching Band performs during halftime at the 1969 Homecoming game.

The Zeta House at 1607 Alsace Road. Spring, 1978. ZetaOmega Epsilon was founded at Albright College in 1904.Photo courtesy of Ken Borland ’81.


1970 1975 1980


1970�Albright creates the first

biochemistry program in the region.�National Guard kills four students at

Kent State University in Ohio.�The Beatles disband.

1971�Mohn Hall built. (On the former

Myerstown campus there was a girl’sdormitory named Mohn Hall.)

�First e-mail sent.

1972�Hurricane Agnes causes disastrous

floods and destruction in Pennsylvania.

1973�Vietnam conflict ends with Paris

Peace Accords.

1974�Nixon resigns amid Watergate scandal.�Energy crisis causes a gasoline shortage

throughout the nation.

1978�The Jensen Greenhouse

erected at Science Hall.

1979�Radiation leaks during an

accident at Three Mile Islandnuclear plant in Pa.

�Iranians hold Americanhostages at U.S. embassy inTehran.

In 1969, some 700 students took over the library for four days as part of a protest effort demanding liberalization of school policies, higherblack student enrollment, black professors, an African-American center and open dorms. The sit-in followed a faculty “teach-in” on Vietnam.



Faculty and administrators pose in front of Merner-Pfeiffer-Klein Memorial Chapel, October 1962.

Songfest, which began in the early 1960s and was held during Homecoming, was a fiercecompetition among fraternities, sororities and other student groups on campus.

Faculty, administrators and trustees lead an academicprocession into Merner-Pfeiffer-Klein Memorial Chapel, 1978.



The snack area in the Campus Center, 1967.Jake’s Place, the current Campus Center snackbar, was added in 1977.

With a 19 watt transmitter and a small studio located inthe back of White Chapel, WXAC 640 AM, which wasclosed circuit and transmitted over the campus electriclines, had its first broadcast on September 8, 1965. Thefollowing year, 91.3 FM was added for the benefit of thegreater Reading community, playing music from rock ‘n’roll to jazz, folk to classical. WXAC’s original call letterswere WALC. They were changed after it was discoveredthat they were the same as the Alcoa Steamship Lines.

John Scholl ’69 set the College’s single-game scoringrecord in basketball with 54 points against Lycoming

College in 1969. His record still stands today.



William R. Marlow ’49 gives a lecture in one of his religion classes. Marlow servedas chaplain and professor of religious studies until his retirement in 1992.

Clearly, the Volkswagon Beetle was adependable, affordable and popular means

of transportation in the 60s and 70s, andlined the streets of the Albright campus.


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Diversi�� an� Ex�ansion



The Domino Players perform Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, 1985.

John S. Hall, Ph.D., professor of biology, in the field with studentsJohn W. Senkow ’97 and Matthew B. Slocum ’96. Spring 1996.





1980 1985

1980�Interdisciplinary child and family

studies program created at Albright.Albright Woods student apartments built.

1981�Albright Stadium renamed in

honor of Eugene L. Shirk.�Library named in honor of

Professor F. Wilber Gingrich.

1982�The LifeSports Center added to the

Bollman Physical Education Center.

1986�The space shuttle

Challenger explodes onlaunch, killing all sevenastronauts on board.

1989�Crowell Hall fire.�Berlin Wall torn down,

ending the division between East and West Germany.

Ellen S. Hurwitz, Albright’s 12th president, addresses the Class of 1994 on Science Field.


1990 1995 2000


1990�Albright creates one of the first environmental

studies programs in the nation.�Honors Program established at Albright.�Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait causing the

first Gulf War.

1991�Jacob Albright statue erected in

front of Memorial Chapel, gift ofJudge Richard Eshelman.

�Dedication ceremonies for the newCenter for the Arts.

�Soviet Union crumbles. The ColdWar ends.

1993�Renovations of Science Hall

with matching funds from theNational Science Foundationand the College.

1994MAY 7 - Sherman Cottage renamed Pushman College

in honor of V. Lester and Maryann Pushman.�Albright Food Services served 18,240 hamburgers

and 5,700 gallons of Pepsi.�Lion paw prints stenciled on N. 13th St. in front of

the Bollman Center.

1997�Accelerated Degree Completion Program

established.�English as a Second Language (ESL)

program begins with students from Brazil,Korea, Japan, Morocco, Turkey, Taiwan,Algeria, Spain and Hong Kong.

1998�Three Johnson Centers for

interdisciplinary studies programscreated: Center for Latin American andCaribbean Studies, Center for DigitalMedia and Center for Cultural Ecology.

�Cell phones become popular.�City of Reading celebrates 250th

anniversary.

A group of students paint Lion paw prints on N. 13th Street in front of the Bollman Center, 1994.



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1. The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, chartered at Albright College in November 1990, holds anannual Scaffold Sit to raise money for Push America, the fraternity’s own serviceorganization established to serve people with disabilities. Spring 1996.

2. The Center for the Arts was constructed in 1990. It is home to the Freedman Gallery,Wachovia Theatre, Roop Hall, Klein Lecture Hall, and the art, music and theatredepartments. Architect Adele Santos collaborated with sculptor Mary Miss to create theunique, central plaza/amphitheater area.

3. North Hall was built in 1989. Set up as suites, it provides group living opportunities.

4. Dennis Colon ’00, one of the first graduates of the Accelerated Degree CompletionProgram, established in 1998, leaps from his seat with joy as degrees are conferred atCommencement.

5. Students congregate in the Campus Center for an International dinner. Albright’sstudent body comprises approximately five percent international students representing 20countries.

6. Oozeball, Spring 1993. Oozeball, Albright’s annual game of “volleyball in the mud” heldduring Spring Fever week, was started in the early 90s by the Lion Diplomats.

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The spirit of friendship is an Albright tradition.


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2000 2005

2000�Albright launches first handheld wireless program

in the nation at a small college.�Optical physics combined concentration begins,

only such program nationwide at a small college.�Reading, Pennsylvania’s population is 81,207: of

that 37 percent is Latino.

2001SEPTEMBER 11 - World Trade Center in New York City

attacked by terrorists and 3,000 people die.�United States invades Afghanistan in search of Al Qaeda

terrorist Osama bin Laden.

2002�Albright College offers first master’s degree, in education�Berks County celebrates 250th anniversary.

2003�Albright’s Freedman Gallery creates

“Mexico Iluminado/Illuminated,”largest exhibition of contemporaryMexican art outside of Mexico.

�The second Gulf War begins. TheUnited States invades Iraq and deposesSaddam Hussein.

2004�Nearly two-thirds of American adults own cell phones.

2005�Albright’s Shirk Stadium totally rebuilt.

2006�Albright celebrates its sesquicentennial anniversary.

Amal Salloum ’04 cheers on theAlbright Lions football team.

Robin Gruber, Cindy Sharp and Catarina Baez are the first three students to receive master’s degrees from Albright’sgraduate program in education. They received their degrees at the 2004 Winter Commencement. The program waslaunched in September 2002.



The last remnant of the old Circus Maximus, the home grandstand in Shirk Stadium, came down on March 4, 2005, making way for anew stadium that includes a field house, concessions and a gift shop. Photo by John A. Secoges – courtesy of The Reading Eagle.



The Albright tradition of “ponding” – throwing a co-ed into Sylvan Pond on his/her birthday — has been passed down for many years. Photo by Mark W. Lambertson.


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