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Maine Alumnus, Volume 62, Number 1, Winter 1980, General Alumni Association, University Of Maine

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Contents:

President Paul H. Silverman --- Homecoming 1980 --- UMO's 1959-60 Basketball Team --- Maine's First Degree Recipient Benjamin Flint Gould, Class of 1872

Maine Alumnus, Volume 61, Number 4, Fall 1980, General Alumni Association, University Of Maine

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Contents:

UMO's '65 Football Team --- The Stein Song --- Reunion '80 --- Senior Alumni Hear About UMO, Then and Now --- History of illustrations of Bananas the Bear by Orman B. Doore, Class of 1944

Thompson Document 21: A Letter From Ruby Johnson To Henrietta Thompson, Ruby Johnson

Henrietta Thompson Papers

A letter from Ruby Johnson to Henrietta Thompson. It seems that Johnson is here responding to a request from Thompson that she send some Burmese phrases for Thompson to include in her Walk a Little Faster history of the Walkout.

Thompson Document 20: A Letter From Ruby Johnson To Henrietta Thompson, Ruby Johnson

Henrietta Thompson Papers

A letter from Ruby Johnson, a nurse who participated in the 1942 Walkout from Burma to India, to Henrietta Thompson. Johnson was the first of the Walkout participants Thompson interviewed, and Thompson particularly enjoyed this meeting and was indebted to Johnson not only for offering an account of her own experiences, but also for making Thompson aware of a number of nurses who had participated on the Walkout in Burma and also Hla Sein in the U.S. who initially resisted being interviewed about the Walkout. In this letter, Johnson mentions having recently seen Hla Sein, who was by then their …

Maine Alumnus, Volume 61, Number 3, Summer 1980, General Alumni Association, University Of Maine

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Contents:

Canadian Studies --- Canadian-Franco American Studies at UMO --- Profile: Dr. Alice Stewart '37, Canadianist

Maine Alumnus, Volume 61, Number 2, Spring 1980, General Alumni Association, University Of Maine

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Contents:

The School of Performing Arts: a Time of Transition --- Music: Active Performance is the Key --- Classroom and Stage: a Partnership in Theatre --- The Pavillion Theatre: UMO's Newest Performing Space --- Dance: the Newest Division

Youpe! Youpe! Sur La Riviere!, Mr. And Mrs. Lawrence Parent

Maine Song and Story Sampler

A home-made song from Quebec, Youpe! came to Maine the same way many other songs traveled through Maine and the eastern Canadian provinces: with lumbermen who crossed the border in both directions. It was especially popular among French-Canadian lumberjacks who adapted to their own use an earlier song called "Le p'tit bois d'lail."