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Sam Gen Ms 01 Jean Byers Sampson Papers Finding Aid, John D. Knowlton, Susannah Clark

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Jean Byers Sampson was a 1944 graduate of Smith College. Early in her post-Smith career, she conducted and wrote the 1947, “A Study of the Negro in Military Service,” which contributed to President Harry Truman’s decision to desegregate the armed forces. Sampson moved to Maine in the early 1950s with her husband, Richard Sampson, a Bates College mathematics professor, and she played a unique and critical role in the state until her death in 1996. Over the course of her life in Maine, she served as the founder of the first chapter of the NAACP in Maine, local and …

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 21 Edith Meserve Rice Papers Finding Aid, Daniel Draper

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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.

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1940s-2002

Size of Collection:

0.5 ft.

Changing Maine, 1960-2010: Teaching Guide, Richard Barringer, New England Environmental Finance Center

Maine History & Policy Development

Unlike forty years ago, none of us is now certain what the future holds for Maine – except that it will be different. Maine has been transformed by the events of the recent decades. We have come into a new world, a new time – a new historical era, if you will. This new era, like previous eras in Maine history, will require of us new ways of thinking, new ways of understanding, new ways of organizing ourselves as a community of people, if the values and culture we share and cherish are to endure and flourish.

Gen Ms 15 Francis L. Bailey Papers Finding Aid, John D. Knowlton

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Francis L Bailey was President of Gorham State Teacher's College from 1940 to 1960. The Papers consist of Certificates presented to him: Appointment as Reemployment Committeeman, Cumberland County Local Board No. 4, Maine, 1945 Je 13; Certificate of Appreciation for uncompensated Service in the Selective Service System, undated.

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1945 & undated

Size of Collection:

1 ft.

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.

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1890s

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0.5 ft.

University Of Maine Portland- Gorham Commencement Program 1971, University Of Maine Portland - Gorham

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State College of the University of Maine program for the Ninetieth-second Annual Commencement. Held in Gorham, Maine June 6, 1971. Address given by Dr. Robert M. York.

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.

Portland University Commencement Program 1961, Portland University

Commencement Programs

Portland University Commencement program 1961. Commencement was held Friday, June 2, 1961, at Willison Church in Portland, Maine. Commencement speaker was William S. Linnell of Linnell, Perkins, Thompson, Hinckley & Thaxter. Honorary Degrees Conferred upon: William S. Linnell and Edward A. Myers.

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.

Portland University Commencement Program 1959, Portland University

Commencement Programs

Portland University Commencement program 1959. Commencement was held Friday, June 5, 1959, at Willison Church in Portland, Maine. Commencement speaker was The Honorable Edward T. Gignoux, Judge of the United States District Court for Maine. Honorary Degrees Conferred upon: J. William Schulze and The Honorable Edward T. Gignoux.

Portland University Commencement Program 1958, Portland University

Commencement Programs

Portland University Commencement program 1958. Commencement was held Friday, June 6, 1958, at Willison Church in Portland, Maine. Commencement speaker was Jean Gannett Williams, Portland University Board of Trustees and President of Gannett Publishing Company. Honorary Degrees Conferred upon: Jean Gannett Williams and Wadleigh Bean Drummond, Esq.

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.

Portland University Commencement Program 1957, Portland University

Commencement Programs

Portland University Commencement program 1957. Commencement was held Friday, June 7, 1957, at Willison Church in Portland, Maine. Commencement speaker was J. William Schulze, Chairman of the Portland University Board of Trustees. Honorary Degrees Conferred upon: The Honorable Robert B. Williamson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine and Everett P. Ingalls, Vice President of S. D. Warren Company.

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.

Portland University Commencement Program 1954, Portland University

Commencement Programs

Portland University Commencement program 1954.Commencement was held Friday, June 11, 1954, at Willison Church in Portland, Maine. Commencement speaker was The Honorable Edward F. Merrill, retired Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court. Honorary Degrees Conferred upon: The Honorable Edward F. Merrill, retired Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court.