SU Class Files Collection
This collection contains ephemera from graduating classes of Cumberland Valley State Normal School, Shippensburg State Teacher’s College, Shippensburg State College, and Shippensburg University. Included are event programs, news clippings, daybooks, obituaries, notes and correspondence, reunion programs, alumni directories, poems, invitations, photos, playbills, song lyrics, menus, dance cards, student lists, student committee minutes, student identification cards, student handbooks, class notebooks, student schedules, sports schedules, and correspondence relating to the organization of class reunions and alumni gatherings. Also included are letters and holiday cards written from Shippensburg students and alumni who served in World War II (1941-1945) and during the Korean War (1950-1953). A number of objects are also included in the collection, including a class ring, reunion commemorative pen, napkin ring, harmonica, and felt patches. The records are chronologically arranged in 15 archival document boxes and one scrapbook box starting with 1873 and continuing to 2007. All items are filed in the class year to which they pertain, which is not necessarily the year the documents were created.