Noel Davis Godfrey Papers

Noel Davis Godfrey was born in South Lubec, Maine in 1895 and died at a Calais hospital in 1986. He graduated from the University of Maine with a bachelor's degree in 1917, received his master's degree from Columbia University in 1923, graduated from New York University Law School with a law degree in 1926, and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1927. He graduated from the New York University School of Education in 1931 with a Ph.D. He began a teaching career as a member of the faculty at the Madawaska Training School in 1916, taught at several New England and New York locations, and spent 32 years on the faculty of New York University retiring in 1960 as professor emeritus of general history. For the next 20 years he taught at the Machias and Orono campuses of the University of Maine. He was an eloquent speaker and lecturer and addressed numerous civic, educational, and religious groups in the metropolitan New York area, in his native Maine, and in Canada. He was interested in Maine's higher education, and his doctoral dissertation was an intensive study of collegiate and university education in the State of Maine. He was the author of a number of publications and research papers, in addition to being co-author of two books on Western Civilization.