WHEN WAS VALLEY FORGE PROPOSAL DEAD?
The article, “The Road Not Taken,” on the proposal to relocate the College to Valley Forge proposal in the November issue bestirred my memories of things past. As I recall, in the Winter of 1939 the General Alumni Society arranged for undergraduate campus leaders to visit the proposed Wollman site. In fact, Mr. Wollman poured the punch that Saturday afternoon. Ralph Morgan was president of the General Alumni Society and welcomed us individually. My classmates included James Sill Morgan, George B. McClelland, and one of Dr. Penniman’s stepsons. At the time, we were under the impression that the Valley Forge proposal was a viable product. A fraternity brother of mine, M. Wistar Wood, was executive director of the General Alumni Society and probably supported the “pie-in-the-sky” idea. Those memories seem to contradict the findings of Richard A. Farnum Jr. that the Valley Forge project was dead and buried, as the University was in the midst of a campaign to raise $7 million to celebrate i
The article, “The Road Not Taken,” on the proposal to relocate the College to Valley Forge proposal in the November issue bestirred my memories of things past. As I recall, in the Winter of 1939 the General Alumni Society arranged for undergraduate campus leaders to visit the proposed Wollman site. In fact, Mr. Wollman poured the punch that Saturday afternoon. Ralph Morgan was president of the General Alumni Society and welcomed us individually. My classmates included James Sill Morgan, George B. McClelland, and one of Dr. Penniman’s stepsons. At the time, we were under the impression that the Valley Forge proposal was a viable product. A fraternity brother of mine, M. Wistar Wood, was executive director of the General Alumni Society and probably supported the “pie-in-the-sky” idea. Those memories seem to contradict the findings of Richard A. Farnum Jr. that the Valley Forge project was dead and buried, as the University was in the midst of a campaign to raise $7 million to celebrate i
