MS 145
AUTHOR :	Beam, Charles Richard (1925-
TITLE :	C. Richard Beam Pennsylvania-Dutch Newspaper Clippings
DATES :	1886-2000
SIZE :	3 linear feet. 8 boxes; 10 1/2 x 5 x 15 1/2 inches, 4 boxes; 3 1/4 x 15 1/2 x 12 inches and 1 box; 10 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches.
ARRANGEMENT :	Newspaper clippings; Chronologically arranged under author's surname or title of newspaper column.
HISTORY :	C. Richard Beam was born on February 25, 1925 in Red Run, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He attended local public schools in the Ephrata area and after graduating high school was accepted at Louisiana State University in 1943. After only 12 weeks in college he entered the United States Army and served in the European theater during the Second World War. Following the war, Beam returned to Lancaster County and attended Franklin & Marshall College. He graduated from the school in 1949 with a Bachelor's of Arts degree in German. From the fall of 1949 to the summer of 1954 he attended the University of Marburg (1949-1950), the University of Vienna (1952-1953) and McGill University (1954). In 1955 he was admitted to the graduate school at Middlebury College and two years later received a Master's of Arts degree in German. Between 1957 and 1961 he continued his graduate work at Pennsylvania State University. In the fall of 1961, Beam accepted an appointment at Millersville State College as a foreign language professor. His major focus of research was in the Pennsylvania-Dutch dialect spoken in the United States and Canada. He has spent his academic career documenting the dialect, revising Lambert's Pennsylvania-Dutch Dictionary and developing the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies at Millersville University. In the fall of 1990 he retired from Millersville University after twenty-nine years of teaching.
CONTENTS:	Contains newspaper clippings of columns written in the Pennsylvania-Dutch dialect by C. Richard Beam, entitled "Es Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch Eck", for Die Botschaft, The Shopping News, The Lebanon Daily News, West Berks Crier, The Budget and Lancaster Sunday News from 1976 to 2000. The collection also consists of newspaper clippings of columns by: Earl C. Haag ("Es Neinuhr Schtick"), Dave Hendricks ("Wunnerfritz"), Bill Klouser ("En Kat'z Deisch Schtick"), Ernest W. Bechtel ("Gscheitheide un Dumheita"), Laura Glick Copeland ("Then and Now"), Jim Kinter ("Wunnerfitz"), Erich A. Stoeckel ("Was Saagt der Adam Stolzfuus"), Dewey S. Herrold ("doh alt Deutsch Geischt"), Eugene S. Stine ("En Deitscher Schreibt"), Bill Klouser ("En Kats Deitsch Schtick"), Richard Duckenbrod ("Es Deitsch Schtick"), Victor Dieffenbach ("Horrich Amohl Boova"), John A. Rittinger ("The Letters of Joe Klotzkopp, Esq."), William Schultz ("Powder Valley"), Carl J. Arner (Der Schnitzelbonk"), Clarence G. Reitnauer ("Der Shdivvel Knecht"), Vernon M. Kamp ("Scholla Aus'm Rosen Dahl"), Leroy Beachy ("Unser Leit"), Pierce E. Swope ("Was Saagt Der...Kaspar Hufnagel?" and "Your Pennsylvania German Letter"), Robert H. Sprangler ("Im Eck Wuu Ick Huck") and Barbara Miller ("Touch of Dutch"). Includes scrapbooks of late 19th century and early 20th century Pennsylvania-Dutch newspaper columns such as: "Brief fum Bossum Deich", "Deitscher Brief" (1936-1939), "Scholla" (ca. 1930's-1940's), "Der Oldt Bauer" (1937-1941), "Der Pennsylvanier" (1901-1904), "Der Olt Schullmashter" (1902), "Der Bonagridle Schreibdt" (1938), "Schweffelbrenner" (1879-1901), "Brief fum Sowell Files" (1886-1894), "Obediah Grouthomel" (1913-1923), "Der Gust und die Suf", "Der Uncle Tobias", "Der Fred Sagt: Horrich Amole Boowa" and "Pumpernickle Bill" (1925-1957). The bulk of the material is in the Pennsylvania-Dutch dialect.
SUBJECTS :	Beam, Charles Richard (1925- Pennsylvania German Dialect. Poetry, Pennsylvania German. Pennsylvania Dutch -- Folklore. Lancaster County (Pa.) -- History. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Bechtel, Ernest W. Haag, Earl C. Hendricks, Dave Klouser, Bill Copeland, Laura Glick Kinter, Jim Stoeckel, Erich A. Herrold, Dewey S. Stine,Eugene S. Druckenbrod, Richard Dieffenbach, Victor Rittinger, John A. Schultz, William Arner, Carl J. Reitnauer, Clarence G. Kamp, Vernon M. Beachy, Leroy Swope, Pierce E. Spangler, Robert H. Miller, Barbara Troxell, William S. Pumpernickle Bill DeLong, Solomon Grouthomel, Solomon Files, Sowell Hulsbruck, Solly Sensawetzer, Sammy Holtzschtivvel, Naden Ewich Yaeger Schweffelbrenner, Pit Seidelevish, Peter Light, Frank H. Peffer, Sam Bonagridle, Pappy Brunnergress, Pete

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