Waynflete School (Portland, Me.)

Abstract NA3136 Dorothy A. LeButt, interviewed by Lucia P. Smith, 1984, Portland, Maine. LeButt, born on June 12, 1905, recalls growing up in Portland; Park Street School; Butler School; Portland High School; Largesse Hall Junior College in Lowell, Massachusetts; the Northeast Conservatory of Music; Waynflete; Rogers Hall Preparatory School; Jefferson Theatre; Keith vaudeville shows; Robert Glecker and Grace Carlisle; City Hall; John Phillp Sousa; Burnham Gymnasium; Mr. Wilson’s Dance School; the...

Abstract NA3149 Dorothy Plummer, interviewed individually by Nancy Herter, February 16, 1985 and Martha A. Timothy, February 27 and March 13, 1985, Portland, Maine. Plummer, born April 4, 1899, describes her life on the family farm near the Nonesuch River; Emerson School; Waynflete High School; Wellesley College; Northern Army at Eastern Promenade; Fat Man’s Club; Red Cross in WWII; Knights of Pithius; Redman club and Moose organization; Saint Lawrence Congregational Church and Sunday School;...

Abstract NA3128 Elizabeth Thomas Soule Chapman, interviewed by Lucia P. Smith, October 2, 1984, Foreside, Maine. Chapman, born April 16, 1914, talks about the house; her parents William and Mary Thomas; live-in help; Cyril Durante was butler; pony stable on Chadwick Street; two attics; two cellars; chauffeur; governess Annie Mundy from England; plant room; small garden with fountain; pony carts; took ponies to Waynflete; decorating the house with real greens for Christmas; Miss Chrisfield and...

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NA3153 Jennie E. (Means) Thompson, interviewed by Carol C. Norris Foord, March 8, 1984, South Portland, Maine. Thompson, born in 1892 in Nebraska, talks about being sent to Maine at 7-8; brought up by grandparents; attending Dana Hall Preparatory School in Wellesley, Massachusetts; attending Waynflete School; Flu Epidemic of 1918. Handwritten partial notes. Text: information sheet; 16 pp. index with selective transcription and notes. Recording: C 1009 90 minutes.

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NA3145 Marion Brown Payson, interviewed by Alice Mary Pierce, January 23, 1992, Cumberland Foreside, Maine. Payson, born in Portland in 1896, talks about the Westover School and Waynflete Academy; Congregationalist Church; describes neighborhood; Red Cross in Halifax; Nova Scotia; starting a canteen at Delano Park; working in a sick house during the 1918 Flu Epidemic; Bangor Theological Seminary. Text: 25 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1019 45 minutes (incomplete).

Abstract NA3135 Vergn E. Hewes, interviewed by Martha A. Timothy, February 15, 1985, Saco, Maine. Hewes, born in Montreal, Canada on January 1, 1889, recalls growing up in Saco; remodeling Victorian house; Farmington Academy; Farmington State College; Lillian Nautica; taught at Machias High School; Jay High School and Waynflete School; Campfire Girls and Camp Laughing Moon Director; Thornton Academy Tea House; Red Cross; Flu Epidemic of 1918; Grange; Congregational and Unitarian Churches; W. E....