Arts and Humanities Commons^™

Gen Ms 44 Doris Roberts Humphrey Papers, Jill Piekut Roy

Search the General Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Description:

Doris Mae Roberts Humphrey (1907-2002) of Gray, Maine, was a teacher educated at Gorham Normal School. Papers contain a a teaching contract for East Gray School dated September 1926, and notebook labeled "Drawing Grade 8" from Gorham Normal School 1928 with lessons and drawings.

Date Range:

1926-1928

Size of Collection:

2 File Folders

Gen Ms 30 Thurston/Corthell Collection Finding Aid, Megan Hendrix

Search the General Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Description:

W.J. Corthell was the first principal of the Western State Normal School in Gorham, founded in 1878. The other collector may have been Marjorie Thurston, class of 1907. The Memorabilia consists of artifacts and photographs found in Special Collections.

Date Range:

1870s-1907

Size of Collection:

1 ft.

Gen Ms 22 Hayden Anderson Papers Finding Aid, Daniel Draper

Search the General Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Description:

Hayden L. Anderson was a prominent Maine educator and Maine historian. He graduated from Gorham Normal School in 1925, and subsequently earned degrees from Boston University and Bates College, as well as doing graduate work at Harvard University. He served as principal and superintendent in schools in central and northern Maine, and as Dean of Instruction at Farmington State College. He also worked in the State Department of Education and served on the Board of Trustees of the University of Maine. He was a student of local history, editing the bicentennial history of Litchfield, Litchfield Yesteryears, and writing a …

Gen Ms 19 Fitts Family Collection Finding Aid, Daniel Draper

Search the General Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Description:

Bertha Rice Fitts was born in 1870, in Waterford, Maine. After graduating from Gorham Normal School in 1894, she became Master’s Assistant and eighth-grade teacher in Westbrook, Maine, before accepting a similar position at a grammar school in Quincy, MA. While in Quincy, she boarded with Mrs. Calvin Fitts, and in 1899 married her son, Arthur Fitts. She was involved in the Southern Branch of the Gorham Alumni Association for many years. The Collection consists of primarily late 19th c. commercial photographs of teachers and students of Gorham Normal School, plus photos of Gorham Normal School buildings, Bertha Fitts …

Gen Ms 21 Edith Meserve Rice Papers Finding Aid, Daniel Draper

Search the General Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Description:

Edith Meserve Rice was a student at Gorham Normal School 1942-1946, and was active in the Alumni Association from the 1970s through the 1990s. The Papers include photographs and other material documenting Rice's life as a student at Gorham Normal School in the early 1940s, as well as alumni news, songs of Gorham Normal School and the State of Maine, and information about Gorham State Teachers College and the University of Southern Maine.

Date Range:

1940s-2002

Size of Collection:

0.5 ft.

Gen Ms 17 Miriam Andrews Papers Finding Aid, Susie R. Bock, Nicole Keeler

Search the General Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Description:

Miriam Andrews was a Gorham Normal School music teacher from 1922 to 1960. She had attended the New England Conservatory of Music and Julliard School of Music in New York. She continued her education at Columbia University’s Teachers College where she received her Bachelors and Masters degrees. During her teaching tenure at Gorham Normal School, she directed plays, organized concerts and operettas, and in 1925 compiled a music book for the school called Songs of Gorham Normal School. The Papers consist of an audiocassette recording and transcript of a 1974 interview with her, an undated photograph, and a copy …

Gen Ms 08 Walter E. Russell Papers Finding Aid, John D. Knowlton

Search the General Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Description:

Dr. Walter E. Russell Papers span the period 1874-1945, the bulk of them 1870s-1880s, consisting of writings on education and allied topics as well as his sermons. There are a small number of printed items and a photograph of the1928 School Summer Session. Russell often used printed material as scrap paper, so forms usually found in the office of an education administrator of the time occur in these Papers.

Date Range:

1874-1945

Size of Collection:

2 ft.

Gen Ms 10 Harriet Sweetser Letters Finding Aid, John D. Knowlton

Search the General Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Description:

Harriet Sweester attended Gorham Normal School in the 1890s. She became a teacher and the first Administrator of Home Economics for the Maine State Department of Education. The collection contains letters Sweetser wrote home describing her daily life as a student.

Date Range:

1890s

Size of Collection:

0.5 ft.

Gen Ms 02 Batchelder-Haley Letters Finding Aid, Susie R. Bock

Search the General Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Description:

Abigail E. Batchelder and Cora M. (Giles) Haley, graduates in the Second Class of 1899 of Gorham Normal School, lived and taught in Japan at the turn of the 20th century. The collection consists of letters to their former landlady and mentor, describing the people, landscape, and society there.

Date Range:

1906-1908, 1915-1916, 1918

Size of Collection:

0.25 ft.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1946, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College programs for the Baccalaureate Services and Graduation Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 13 and 14, 1946. Address given by Dr. Payson Smith, University of Maine.

Green And White 1946, Gorham Normal School

Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1945, Gorham Normal School

Commencement Programs

The Gorham Normal School program for the Graduation Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 14, 1945. Address given by Dr. Walter E. Russell, Principal Emeritus.

Green And White 1945, Gorham Normal School

Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1944, Gorham Normal School

Commencement Programs

The Gorham Normal School programs for the Baccalaureate Services and Graduation Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine May 25 and 26, 1944. Address given by Hon. Harry V. Gilson, State Commissioner of Education.

Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1942, Gorham Normal School

Commencement Programs

The Gorham Normal School program for the Graduation Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 15, 1942. Address given by Dr. Payson Smith.

Green And White 1943, Gorham Normal School

Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Green And White 1942, Gorham Normal School

Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1941, Gorham Normal School

Commencement Programs

The Gorham Normal School programs for the Senior Last Chapel and Graduation Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 12 and 16, 1941. Address given by Dr. Bertram E. Packard, State Commissioner of Education.

Green And White 1941, Gorham Normal School

Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1940, Gorham Normal School

Commencement Programs

The Gorham Normal School programs for the Senior Last Chapel, Baccalaureate Services and Graduation Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 14, 16 and 17, 1940. Address given by Rufus Matthew Jones, D.D., LL. D., Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Green And White 1940, Gorham Normal School

Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Green And White 1939, Gorham Normal School

Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1938, Gorham Normal School

Commencement Programs

The Gorham Normal School programs for the Baccalaureate Services and Graduation Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 19 and 20, 1938. Address given by Dean Willard L. Sperry, School of Theology, Harvard University.

Green And White 1938, Gorham Normal School

Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1937, Gorham Normal School

Commencement Programs

The Gorham Normal School programs for the Baccalaureate Services and Graduation Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 20 and 21, 1937. Address given by Dr. Frank W. Wright.

Green And White 1937, Gorham Normal School

Yearbooks

GRADUATING CLASS OF 1937

• ADAMS, LEOLA M. pg.32
• ALLEN, MARION O. pg.32
• BARBOUR, RICHARD E. pg.32
• BELL, VIRGINIA MARION pg.32
• BROOKS, KENNETH T.H. pg.32
• BROWN, ELINOR pg.32
• BURNS, ELEANOR pg.32
• COBB, ETHEL pg.32
• CROCKETT, KEITH LORIMER pg.32
• DOE, ARTHUR FRANKLIN pg.32
• EDWARDS, DOROTHY pg.33
• FRENCH, BERTHA VIRGINIA pg.33
• FRYE, BEVERLEY pg.33
• GAY, STANLEY ADELBERT pg.33
• GURNEY, HAZEL pg.33
• HAMBLEN, ALMERY RICHARD pg.33
• HENRY, ROBERTA SLOCUM pg.33
• HIGGINS, KARLTON E. pg.33
• HILYARD, ELSIE pg.33
• JOYCE, CATHERINE VIRGINIA pg.34
• KELLEY, ELIZABETH CARPENTER pg.34
• KELLEY, EUNICE A. pg.34
• KNIGHT, VIRGINIA ELIZABETH pg.34
• LANGDON, JEAN pg.34
• LIBBY, HOWARD A. pg.34
• LIBBY, PHILIP C. pg.34 …

Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1936, Gorham Normal School

Commencement Programs

The Gorham Normal School program for the Graduation Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 15, 1936. Address given by Dr. Payson Smith.

Green And White 1936, Gorham Normal School

Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1935, Gorham Normal School

Commencement Programs

The Gorham Normal School program for the Graduation Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 17, 1935. Address given by Rev. Hilda Libby Ives.

Green And White 1935, Gorham Normal School

Yearbooks

No abstract provided.