Dates

• Majority of material found within 1930 - 1984

Extent

3 boxes Linear Feet (Isolde A. Henninger (December 1, 1905-August 31, 1984) was a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages (formerly the Department of Romance and Foreign Languages) from 1961 until 1973 at Indiana State College (ISC) which became Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) in 1965-1966. Henninger was born in New Bremen, Ohio and she was the youngest daughter of Rev. Walter F. Henninger (December 2, 1873-February 2, 1929) and his first wife Christine Caroline Kuehner Henninger (April 29, 1865-January 11, 1919). Isolde Henninger earned her BA and MA degrees from Ohio State University, where she also taught for two years. Isolde Henninger later taught at Talledge College in Talledge, Alabama, for five years before her appointment as a professor of foreign languages at Indiana State College in 1961. At IUP, she taught Spanish, German, and Portuguese until her retirement in 1973. Isolde Henninger continued to live in Indiana, Pennsylvania after retiring from IUP. She is buried next to her sister Emogene Brunhilda Rawers Koester (February 13, 1904-January 12, 1984) in Mountain View Cemetery in San Bernardino, California. In 1986, the Isolde A. Henninger Award for Achievement Endowment was created to honor foreign language students and support the critical-language program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). This award was created by the friends and family of Henninger, and according to Maja Hartmann Chaszar, wife of Dr. Edward Chaszar who taught Political Science at IUP (Manuscript Group 106 Edward Chaszar Collection), “The endowment was established to perpetuate Miss Henninger’s ideals as a teacher of extreme dedication and very high standards. The endowment also reflects that, as a teacher, Miss Henninger placed more value on hard work and perseverance than on a bright mind to which excellence comes easily.” The collection dates from the 1930s to the 1980s with the majority of documents dating from Isolde Henninger’s tenure at Indiana during the 1960s and early 1970s. The collection contains Spanish and other European language course teaching materials, subject files, and university service documents donated by Professor Isolde A. Henninger. She taught Spanish, German, and Portuguese at IUP until her retirement in 1973. The collection also contains files about the organization of faculty in AAUP (Manuscript Group 37), the unionization of IUP faculty with the formation of IUP Chapter of APSCUF (Record Group 49) in the early 1970s, and the possibility of creating an IUP Society of Scholars, Phi Beta Kappa (Record Group 59). The collection also includes information about foreign language courses, teaching materials, and subject files donated by Isolde Henninger from her educational background and earlier teaching experience at Ohio State University and Talledge College. )

Language of Materials

English