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Gen Ms 23 Esther Wood Papers Finding Aid, Daniel Draper, Megan Turner

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Esther Wood taught Social Sciences and History at Gorham Normal School from 1930 to 1972. She regularly wrote columns for the Christian Science Monitor and received many awards, including “Woman of the Year” from the Blue Hill Chamber of Commerce and a Doctorate of Humane Letters honoris causa from Colby College. In 1973, the University named a dormitory building on the Gorham campus in her honor. The Papers consist of her lecture notes on the history of New England from the 16th century through the colonial period and the Revolutionary War to the founding of the State of Maine …

Gen Ms 19 Fitts Family Collection Finding Aid, Daniel Draper

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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 13 Kenneth T. H. Brooks Finding Aid, John D. Knowlton

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Kenneth T. H. Brooks received his undergraduate degree from the University of New Hampshire and Masters and Doctoral degrees from Boston University. He served as President of Gorham State Teacher’s College from 1960-68, then continued as President of the University of Maine at Gorham from 1968-1970. He stepped down when Gorham merged with the University of Maine at Portland. He wrote See the Green and White Advancing: A History of Gorham Normal School, Teachers College, and State College 1878-1970, which was published in 1995. Kenneth Brooks died December 4, 1995. This small miscellaneous group of papers focuses on Brooks …

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

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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.

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1874-1945

Size of Collection:

2 ft.

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

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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.

Gorham State College Of The University Of Maine Commencement Program 1970, Gorham State College Of The University Of Maine

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State College of the University of Maine programs for the Baccalaureate Services, and Ninetieth-first Annual Commencement. Held in Gorham, Maine June 7, 1970. Address given by Dr. Herman R. Branson.

Gorham State College Commencement Program 1969, Gorham State College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State College programs for the Baccalaureate Services, and Ninetieth Annual Commencement. Held in Gorham, Maine June 1, 1969. Address given by Dr. Harold Taylor.

Gorham State College Commencement Program 1968, Gorham State College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State College program for the Eighty-ninth Annual Commencement. Held in Gorham, Maine June 2, 1968. Address given by Mr. Saville Davis.

Gorham State College Commencement Program 1967, Gorham State College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State College programs for the Baccalaureate Services, and Eighty-eight Annual Commencement. Held in Gorham, Maine June 4, 1967. Address given by Dr. Samuel M. Brownell.

Gorham State College Commencement Program 1966, Gorham State College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State College programs for the Baccalaureate Services, and Commencement Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 5, 1966. Address given by Dr. T. M. Stinnett./p>

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1965, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College programs for the Baccalaureate Services, and Commencement Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 6, 1965. Address given by The Honorable Frank M. Coffin.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1964, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College programs for the Baccalaureate Services, and Commencement Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 7, 1964. Address given by Dr. Warren G. Hill, President, Trenton State College.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1963, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College program for the Commencement Exercises. Held in Portland, Maine June 10, 1963. Address given by Dr. E. DeAlton Partidge.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1962, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College programs for the Baccalaureate Services, and Commencement Exercises. Held in Gorham and Portland, Maine June 3 and 4, 1962. Address given by Dr. Albert E. Burke.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1961, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College programs for the Baccalaureate Services, and Commencement Exercises. Held in Gorham and Portland, Maine June 4 and 5, 1961. Address given by Dr. J. Wendall Yeo, Vice-President for Student Affairs, Boston University.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1960, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College program for the Commencement Exercises. Held in Portland, Maine June 3, 1960. Address given by Dean Francis S. Keppel, Graduate School of Education, Harvard College.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1959, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College programs for the Baccalaureate Services, and Commencement Exercises. Held in Gorham and Portland, Maine June 4 and 5, 1959. Address given by Governor Clinton A. Clauson.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1958, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College program for the Commencement Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 6, 1958. Address given by Hon. Horace A. Hildreth.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1957, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College programs for the Baccalaureate Services, and Commencement Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 6 and 7, 1957. Address given by Dr. Warren G. Hill, State Commissioner of Education.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1956, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College programs for the Baccalaureate Services, and Commencement Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 7 and 8, 1956. Address given by Governor Edmund S. Muskie.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1955, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College programs for the Baccalaureate Services, and Commencement Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 9 and 10, 1955. Address given by Dr. Payson Smith.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1954, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College program for the Commencement Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 11, 1954. Address given by Dr. Herbert Ross Brown, Professor of English, Bowdoin College.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1953, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College program for the Commencement Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 12, 1953. Address given by Dr. Herbert G. Espy, Commissioner of Education.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1952, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College programs for the Senior Last Chapel, Baccalaureate Services, and Commencement Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 7, 8, and 9, 1952. Address given by Dean Mark R. Shinles, School of Education, University of Maine.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1951, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College programs for the Commencement Week, Senior Last Chapel, Baccalaureate Services, and Commencement Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 2 to 11, 1951. Address given by Dr. Kenneth C. M. Sills, President Bowdoin College.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1950, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College programs for the Baccalaureate Services and Commencement Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 11 and 12, 1950. Address given by Dr. Kenneth C. M. Sills, President Bowdoin College.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1949, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College program for the Commencement Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 13, 1949. Address given by Ermo H. Scott, Deputy Commissioner of Education for Maine.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1948, 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, 1948. Address given by Hon. Harland A. Ladd, Commissioner of Education for Maine.

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1947, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College programs for the Baccalaureate Services and Graduation Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 15 and 16, 1947. Address given by Dr. Edward S. Evenden, Columbia University.

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.