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Student Affairs
Dean of Students
Marguerite Kehr Papers, 1941-1975
Box 1:
Biography, 1953-1975
Includes newsletter honoring her
Correspondence from Former Students (2 folders), 1942-1955 (names of correspondents follow)
Includes letters and postcards from students serving in military
Clippings of Service Men and Women (2 folders), 1949-1955
Includes newsletters of veterans, defense setup at college, NRA, marriage
announcements, postcards, wounded soldiers, holiday cards, and local soldiers
Clippings and Other Material re: WWII, Navy V-5 & V-12 Units (2 folders)
Folder 1: Includes flight plan, list of Navy wives, war programs newsletter, Navy officer
candidate program at Bloomsburg newspaper clipping, photographs of soldiers
and war planes, Berwick Airport as an Auxiliary Field, Officer recognition
newspaper clipping, station orders, request for leave form, spring formal
invitation, list of uniform and time schedule for wardroom dance, and V-J
tentative plans
Folder 2: Includes “What to do in an Air Raid” pamphlet, Regulations and Instructions
for the Operation of Navy V-12 Unit booklet, air raid program, and Waller Hall
air raid drill (procedure, exits, and officers)
Scrapbook Clippings kept by Dr. Kehr: "B.S.T.C. In War Service" (3 folders), 1942-1947
Folder 1: photographs of soldiers; letter; newspaper clippings of promotions or
announcements in military, honoring Anthony Yenalavage “Air Hero”, dead or
missing soldiers, honoring Martha A. Knorr-WAVES, Walter Kania on missing
plane, marriage announcements, soldiers returning home, “Fanning” section,
wounded soldiers, and Lt. William Kirk recognition
Folder 2: newspaper clippings of announcements of soldiers’ deaths/wounds, promotions,
returning home, missing and marriages/engagements; “Fanning” newspaper
section; Harry Jenkins awarded medal; 44 kids gather scrap to avenge Lt. Donald
Jenkins; Lt. Nelson Oman shares his war story; Lt. Buddy M. Hartman awarded
medal; and Mary Schuyler death-first county woman to die in the war
Folder 3: newspaper clippings of announcements of soldiers’ deaths/wounds, promotions,
missing, marriages/engagements, discharges and returning home; “Fanning”
newspaper section; James Hartman awarded medal, Dororthy Schmidt escapedcaptured for three years; James S. Kline gains freedom on his birthday- Nazi
prison for 7 months; Lt. Col. John Timbrell sits in on trials of Nazi War
Criminals; students plant trees on campus to honor Lt. Earl Harris; and local girls
serving in Red Cross in Germany
Personal Items
Alumni Quarterly, 1941
Newspaper Clippings, 1943-1953

STUDENT CORRESPONDENCE OF DR. MARGUERITE KEHR
NAME

CLASS

YEAR(S) OF
CORRESPONDENCE

Benner, Lee

1953

1954

Blyler, George

1952

1952-53

Bogdan, John

1953

1955

Brooks, Harry

1953

1953-54

Buckingham, Boyd

1943

1943

Cherrington, John R.

1954

1955

Cleaver, William J.

1953

1954-55

Connolley, Edward J.

1955

1955

Cook, Kenneth L.

1950

1952-53

Curilla, Joseph

1950

1952

Davies, Ivor Jr.

1953

Fiorini, John

1938

1942

Gilbert, William

1952

1952-53

Gold, Erma

1929

1942-43

Harring, Maynard L.

1952

1952

Hons, Russell

1953

1943-54

Joy, Jimmy

1953

1954

Kressler, Richard N.

1951

1951

LaBarr, James

1946

1943

Lord, Charlotte

1929

1945

Marini, Henry

1953

1953

Maza, Norman

1940

1945

Kelly, R.D.

Mitchell, James

1953

Morrison, Gene

1953

Nietz, Robert

1953
1953

Plevyak, Paul P.

1950

1953

Price, Robert

1938

1942

Raklevicz, Maria

1940

1945

Repash, Joe

1951-1954

Schuyler, Mary F.

1933

1943

Shanahan, John P.

1952

1952

Taylor, C.M.

1943

Trupane, Phil & Virginia Burke

1939

1945

Trump, Raymond L.

1958

1952

Vannauker, Kathryn May

1936

1942-43

White, John

1952

1953

Witkoski, John

1943

1943