The Mustard & Cheese Drama Society was formed following meetings by a group of Lehigh University students in 1884 by Richard Harding Davis and his schoolmates. The club continued its activities to the present date and it is the longest run Lehigh student club.
H. Barrett Davis headed Mustard & Cheese as Director and advisor when he arrived at Lehigh University in 1946 as an associate professor and eventually as the Chairman of the Division of Speech and Theatre. One of his regrets as a professor was not being able to establish a formal theater building at Lehigh until 26 years later with the renovation of Grace Hall, long after his arrival at the university. He had studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Dartmouth, and Emerson College. He served as a faculty member and theater director at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and Southwestern University in Memphis, Tennessee. At each institution he created a pictorial history of their dramatic productions. However, he regretted not finding any artifacts relating to Mustard & Cheese's history prior to his tenure at Lehigh and dedicated himself to the preservation of the club's history from then onward. Davis retired from Lehigh in 1972. In honor of his years of service, the "H. Barrett Davis Award" was established to reward excellence in university theatrics.
From the description of Lehigh University Mustard & Cheese Drama Society Collection 1946-1972. 1946-1972. (Lehigh University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 668093336
