Scope and Contents The record group mainly contain textual material created and curated by the University of Maine Office of Vice President Of Academic Affairs & Provost, but there are some photographs and phonograph musical records. The series Committee Records contains correspondence, particularly related to serving on committees and meetings, reference material, meeting minutes, guidelines, and reports related to the Facilities Planning Committee, Faculty Advisory Committee on Honorary...

Content Description The record group contains mostly textual material created and curated by Kathryn J. Olmstead during her tenure as a professor of journalism and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine and career as a journalist. Includes clippings of articles by the journalists Brooks Hamilton, Doug Kneeland, and David Lamb. There is also correspondence with Lamb and details of his induction into the Maine Press Association's Hall of Fame (2005).There...

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The record group includes papers for publication, manuscripts, typescripts, page proofs.

Scope and Contents The records contain textual material created and curated by University of Maine history professors William and Jane Pease.The record series Administrative Records & Correspondence contains material regarding various University of Maine and regional committees and task forces that William and Jane served on, particularly those related to the University of Maine History Department and Graduate School. There are also meeting material, memorandums and course information for the...

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The papers of an educator. Includes course notes, correspondence, office files, materials connected with his Jamaica sabbatical, correspondence with Frank Coffin, and personal effects.

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The records contain textual information created and curated by the University of Maine chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, a national scholastic honor society. Included are: charter for the Delta Chapter of Maine, correspondence, minutes of meetings, histories of the chapter, membership lists, candidate lists, clippings, publications, constitution, and by-laws.

Content Description Papers from Lawrence Pinkham, who attended UMaine Orono in the late 1940s. Pinkham was a history/journalism major and worked on The Maine Journalist and The Maine Annex newspapers. He was editor-in-chief of The Maine Campus in 1950.The record group includes:Copies of the University of Maine student newspapers The Maine Journalist (May, 1950), with Pinkham photographed on the front cover and a mention of him being admitted to Columbia University, copies of The Maine...

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The records contain textual information created by the University of Maine Professional Employees' Advisory Council, includes: correspondence, handbooks, copies of various policies and procedures, salary information, member and officer information including election voting, constitution, minutes of meetings, and agendas.

Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information created and curated by Richard J. Campana, who was a University of Maine Botany and Plant Pathology professor, but there are also photographs of Campana, slides, research tools, graphs, charts, and cartographic materials. The record series Biographical Information contains information regarding educational background, resumes, past achievements, awards, and personal correspondence of Campana. The record series Research...

Content Description The records mainly contain textual and photographic information created and curated by James Arnold Colbath during his career in theatre. Also, includes audio recordings of some theatre performances that Colbath was involved in directing and set and costume designs.The record series Theatre Performance and Education Records contains various scripts, playbills, set designs, programs, posters, fliers, clippings, photographs, and some recordings of plays and musicals that Colbath...

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Record group includes clippings, proposals, and other materials relating to the attempt to establish a medical school at the University of Maine in the 1970s.

Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information created and curated by scholar, a teacher, researcher and humorist Irwin Douglass who was a faculty member in the Chemistry Department at the University of Maine and a widely-known specialist in organosulfur chemistry and the chemistry of wood pulp and pulp manufacture. The record group mostly contains textual information during Douglass's tenure at the University of Maine, but there are also some photographs of events Douglass attended. ...

Scope and Contents The records contain textual information created and curated by University of Maine professor Franklin P. Eggert. The record series Graduate School Correspondence contains various correspondence of Eggert related to the University of Maine’s Graduate School which Eggert was the dean of from 1963 to 1975. The record series Correspondence contains various correspondence of Eggert primarily related to his time as chairperson of the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences...

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Papers which reflect the career of a long-term educator at the University of Maine.

Content Description The record group includes field notes and data from the late William Glanz, a zoology professor at the University of Maine. Includes Glanz's research into small mammal communities in California and Chile that formed part of his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977. There are also research notes, correspondence, and papers regarding research for his Astro expedition, project in Alaska on the "Abundance, Feeding Behavior and Impact of Brown Lemming on Tundra...

Scope and Contents The record group mostly contains textual information created and curated by Professor John Hankins during his tenure as college professor of English at the University of Maine, but there is also a photograph of Hankins in Folder 12. Includes: biographical information from the faculty index, correspondence, dramatic pieces, poems, and short stories (including some written by Hankin), articles, and speeches, newspaper clippings on a range of subjects, conference material, and various items...

Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information created by and about E. Reeve Hitchner during his tenure as Professor of Bacteriology (1922-1959), Head of the Department of Bacteriology (1932-1958), and overseeing the Pullorum-Typhoid Testing Service at the University of Maine until his retirement in 1958. There are also photographs of Hitchner and Hitchner Hall and a signed photograph from U.S Congressman Clifford G. McIntire. Include biographic information regarding Hitchner,...

Scope and Contents This records group mostly consists of annotated manuscripts (including published and unpublished) of short fictional stories written by Maine author and University of Maine english professor Edward "Ted" M. Holmes. A number of the short stories featured are also compiled in the various manuscripts of “Islands In My Life”. There are also notes and letters regarding some of the manuscripts including from publishers. For some of the stories there are clippings of the published version of the...

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Material gathered by William B. Krohn, leader of the Maine Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Professor of Wildlife Ecology at the University of Maine, that documents a project to reintroduce caribou in the state of Maine. Includes clippings, newsletters, correspondence, memoranda, etc., many issued by the Maine Caribou Transplant Corporation. Accompanied by clippings and articles, 1937-1991, about caribou given to Krohn by Ralph S. Palmer, a zoologist, author and professor.

Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information created and curated by Waldo M. Libbey, who was a University of Maine engineering professor, but there are also photographs of Libbey and engineering drawings, graphs, and charts. The record series Biographical Information contains on Libbey’s professional and personal life, including profiles, details of appointments and awards, and letters of appreciation. The record series Teaching, Education & Publication Records...

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Papers reflecting Matthew McNeary's teaching career and committee service while a professor at the University of Maine. Included is correspondence, 1946-1951; registration information and course outlines, 1949-1951; and samples of exams and drawings. Also included is correspondence, meeting minutes, etc. from McNeary's work on various University of Maine committees.

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Papers of University of Maine French professor Marie Christiansen Mengers. Included are correspondence, research notes, and lectures relating to the French poet Henri de Régnier (1864-1936). Correspondents include Jacques de Lacretelle, Claude Debussy, George Duhamel, and Henri de Régnier. Also included are copies of Mengers's M.A. and Ph.D. theses, an index to her Ph.D. thesis, unpublished manuscripts, and a copy of her book of poetry Nothing but Song.

Scope and Contents The record group contains papers of William P. Randel. Although Randel was a English professor at the University of Maine, most of the material relates to Randels' writing career particuarly draft manuscripts, both published and unpublished written by Randel. The record series Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Talks & Research Notes contains draft manuscripts on a range of subjects related to literature and history. Also, in many cases the folders include research and submissions to...

Scope and Contents Mostly contains textual information created and curated by University of Maine professor of electrical engineering Edmund MacMillan "Ned" Sheppard.The record series Board of Trustee and Budget Records contains information Sheppard curated during his tenure as the faculty representative to the University of Maine System Board of Trustees including meeting packages, reports, Sheppard’s notes, and copies of budget reports and presentations including for specific departments affected...

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Papers from Geddes W. Simpson's association with the Department of Entomology and the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Maine as well as editorship of American Potato journal.

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The papers of a history professor. Includes primarily lecture notes and exams and University of Maine committee materials.

Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information on a range of subjects compiled primarily by the head administrator of Fogler Library and their administrative staff. The head administrator has been known by different titles: Fogler Library Director of Libraries, University of Maine Librarian, Dean of Cultural Affairs and Libraries, and Dean of University of Maine Libraries. There is also material in the record group from their administrative staff. In addition to materials related to the...

Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information created by the University of Maine's Rudy Vallee Tribute Committee, but there are also photographs. Includes: Committee meeting minutes and correspondence regarding the organization of the tribute and communications with the Vallee family, draft tribute programs, biographical profiles of Vallee, press releases regarding the tribute and Vallee in general, posters and invitations for the tribute, and photographs from the event. Files of David C....

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The record group includes manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, and correspondence with authors. Also, includes proofs for the first volume of "The Writing Teacher" publication.

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Papers of a professor in the College of Education at the University of Maine. The papers reflect the career of a college educator in the field of counseling and school guidance from 1958 until retirement in 1991.