The Omega chapter of Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity was installed at the University of New Hampshire in 1924. This series contains files from the Greek Advisor's Office pertaining to the history and activities of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity at the University of New Hampshire.
The Eta Alpha chapter of Alpha Phi sorority was established at the University of New Hampshire in 1985. This series contains files from the Greek Advisor's Office pertaining to the history and activities of the Alpha Phi sorority at the University of New Hampshire.
Alpha Sigma Phi was recognized on the UNH campus in December 2008. Currently and the fraternity is in the process of expansion. This series contains files from the Greek Advisor's Office pertaining to the history and activities of the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity at the University of New Hampshire.
Alpha Tau Alpha, a fraternity for men in the two year program, was formed in 1906 at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts (later known as the University of New Hampshire). The fraternity disbanded in 1932. This series contains the minute books of the Alpha Tau Alpha Fraternity. The volumes also include the attendance records for the meetings. There is also a small notebook entitled "Frat…
The Gamma Theta local fraternity began at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in 1907. This local fraternity was established as the Delta Delta chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega national fraternity in 1917. This series contains files from the Greek Advisor's Office pertaining to the history and activities of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at the University of New Hampshire.
These interviews were conducted in 1996 by Mylinda Woodward as part of ENG:732 Folklore and Folklife. This collection contains 41 interviews with women who attended UNH during WWII and graduated in the Class of 1945. Several interviews are on cassette tapes. The final report was written by Mylinda Woodward (UNH Class of 1997).
The Connecticut Branch of the Alumni Association of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was formed in November 1920. The original purpose was "to get Connecticut men behind the drive for a Memorial Field". The first meeting was held at Bond Armex Hotel with fourteen present "including a few wives and sweethearts". This series consists of the minute book of the Connecticut Branch of the New Hampshire College Alumni Association, 1920-1930.
The UNH Alumni Association offers networking and social opportunities for both former and present students as well as provides a source of revenue and publicity for the University. These files are comprised of the Association's records.
The newspaper-style Alumni Companion replaced the New Hampshire Alumnus magazine in 1988. Its purpose was to keep alumni informed about alumni affairs and developments at the University, as well as keeping class members in touch with each other and their class activities. It was published in a newspaper format. The last issue was published in Spring of 1998. It was replaced with the University of New Hampshire…
The University of New Hampshire was founded in 1866 in Hanover, N.H. as the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts; it moved to Durham N.H. in 1893 and became a university in 1923. This collection is made up of small donations of all types from alumni/ae of of the New Hampshire College or Agriculture & Mechanical Arts and the University of New Hampshire.
In 1933 the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association established the Alumni Meritorious Service Award as a way of recongizing outstanding alumnae. A committee of alumni, appointed by the Association president, is charged with selecting the recipients of these awards. This series contains the files of the Alumni Meritorious Service Award.
Alvah W. Sulloway (1915-2006) was a lawyer whose career focused on ensuring freedom of information and freedom of access to governmental proceedings for Mainers. In his personal time he collected thousands of early 20th century sheet music publications and ca. 1000 vinyl records. The Alvah Sulloway Theater and Dance Music Collection (1772-1978) consists of thousands of pieces of sheet music organized into nine (9) …
Alvah W. Sulloway (1915-2006) was a lawyer whose career focused on ensuring freedom of information and freedom of access to governmental proceedings for Mainers. In his personal time he collected thousands of early 20th century sheet music publications and ca. 1000 vinyl records. The Alvah Sulloway Theater and Dance Music Collection (1772-1978) consists of thousands of pieces of sheet music which cover sheet music…
The Reverend Alvan Tobey was born in Wilmington, VT on April 1, 1808 and graduated from Amherst College in 1828 and at Andover Seminary in 1831. He succeeded the Rev. Robert Page at the Congregational Church in Durham, NH and began preaching there on the first Sabbath of Oct 1831. He was ordained as minister on Nov 20, 1833. “He was greatly esteemed and the church prospered under his ministry of nearly thirty-nine…
Alvin A. Gove enlisted at age 21 in Seabrook, N. H. on Dec. 6, 1861 into the 6th New Hampshire Regiment. On Oct. 15 1862 in Washington D.C. Alvin mustered out with a disability. A two page letter from eighteen year-old Alvin Gove, a private in the 6th New Hampshire Regiment sent from Camp Stanton, Roanoke Island, N.C. to Friend Albert, Seabrook, NH. Gove describes camp life off the coast of North Carolina and the rumor that General Ambrose Burnside has taken Richmond, Virginia.
The diverse records in this collection relate to lumber trade in early 19th century Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, and originate from the Amasa P. Niles Company of Haverhill, MA. They were kept by Ebenezer Carleton (Sr.) (1773-1849) and his son, Ebenezer Carleton (Jr.) (1801-1886). Most relate to business partners Amasa P. Niles (1779-1840) and Abial Deming (1805-1884). Several hundred other names appear…
The AMC Trail Crew dates to 1919 and is charged with trail and shelter maintenance in the White Mountains. The Association, formed to maintain a sense of community amongst trail crew staff and alumni, was organized in 1952. In 1999, the state of New Hampshire formally recognized it as a non-profit corporation. The collection includes administrative and hiring documents, work reports from the trails, publications,…
[bioghist abstract] The collection consists of class projects undertaken by participants in American Folklife courses taught in the English Department, primarily by Professor Burt Feintuch. The projects take the form of investigations of local persons and traditions from a folklife perspective and cover a wide variety of subjects, ranging from studies of regional humor and maple sugaring to the documentation of…
The American Hockey Coaches Association was formed in May of 1947 in Boston, MA by a handful of college coaches concerned about the game they loved. It has grown to include professional, junior, high school, and youth hockey coaches, as well as referees, administrators, sales representatives, journalists, and fans, and it is open to men and women alike. The American Hockey Coaches Association collection …
The Amherst Steam Mill Company was incorporated in July, 1846. A sawmill began operating in February, 1847, a grist mill on May 1, and a clapboard and a shingle mill shortly thereafter. A fifty horse-power steam engine powered the mills. Notices appearing in the Farmer’s Cabinet, published in Amherst, called people to meetings, notified stockholders when assessments were due on their shares, advertised for workers,…
Amy Marcy Cheney (1867-1944) was born in Henniker, New Hampshire. In 1883, at age sixteen, she made her professional debut as a pianist and later a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After her marriage in 1885, to Henry Harris Aubrey Beach, she shifted emphasis from performance to composition. The 1896 Boston Symphony performance of her Gaelic Symphony in E Minor, Op. 32 (recognized as the first symphonic…
Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was a poet, biographer, and essayist who owned a summer home in Dublin, N.H. near the MacDowell Artist's Colony. One page letter (1917) written by Amy Lowell to poet and editor, William Stanley Braithwaite. Lowell describes her lecturing and speaking engagements in N.Y. City and also refers to poet Maxwell Bodenheim.
The Animal Husbandry Department was part of the Agricultural Division of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. The college became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. In 1958 the Animal Husbandry Department was renamed the Department of Animal Sciences and in 1969 it became part of the reorganized College of Life Sciences and Agriculture. This series contains the files of Loring V. Tirrell who was head of the Animal Husbandry Department from 1930-1963.
Ann Weaver Hart was appointed eighteenth president of the University of New Hampshire on July 1, 2002. This collection contains the presidential papers of Ann Weaver Hart
Anna Maria Greeley Clarke (1811-1883) was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire to Stephen L. and Anna Norton Greeley. In 1834, she married William Cogswell Clarke, a lawyer from Manchester. He and Anna had four children: Stephen Greeley, Anna Norton, Julia Cogswell, and Greenleaf. After William died in 1872, Anna lived with her daughter and son-in-law, Anna Norton and Robert Appleton, in Lake Village, New Hampshire, not…
Annette Brinckerhoff Cottrell (1907-1997) was a conservation activist and a key figure in dozens of state and local environmental organizations in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, including the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League, the New Hampshire Environmental Coalition, the New Hampshire Committee for Better Water, and the Cambridge Plant and Garden Club. She was also instrumental in the creation of Odiorne State Park…
Annie Adams Fields, author and wife of James T. Fields, was born in Boston, MA in 1834. She traveled extensively with her husband and formed intimate friendships with some of America’s most well-known 19th century writers and intellectuals. She died in 1915, having outlived many of her contemporaries. Twenty letters written by Annie Adams Fields between the years 1882 and 1911. Many of them describe her daily life and travels, and two make passing reference to Reverend Henry Ward Beecher and…
The Dean of Student Affairs position was reclassified as Vice President for Student Affairs in July of 1991. This series contains annual reports submitted by the offices and programs that fall under the Dean and then Vice President for Student Affairs. Each report was submitted to either the Dean of Student Affairs or to the Associate Dean of Students unless otherwise noted.
Milton Prince Appleby (1923-2018) was a fiddler and farmer from Rochester, N.H., of New Brunswick French/English and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) heritage. He was born in Needham, Mass., son of John “Jack” Bickford Appleby (1881-1974) and Laura Alice Prince (1908-1995). Milton and his sister Edith (b. 1924) played for square dances within 150 miles of Rochester and made two records on the Spinet label during the 1950s…
Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work. Two letters written in 1970 by Archibald MacLeish from Uphill Farm, Conway, Massachusetts to publisher William Ewert in Concord, N.H. regarding Lawrence Thompson’s biography of Robert Frost. In the letter of October …
Argyle Burrill Proper from Warner, NH was a member of the Class of 1926 at the University of New Hampshire. He was a member of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity, the Aggie Club and the Phi Sigma Honorary Biological Society. He also served on the Y.W.C.A. Cabinet. He married Florence E. Hall, Class of 1927. This scrapbook was compiled by Argyle Proper and contains mementos from his years as a student at the University…
The Art Department at the University of New Hampshire used space in Hamilton Smith Library and Hewitt Hall to show art exhibits until 1960. The Paul Creative Arts Center was constructed that year to house the Art Department and provide two galleries: the Scudder Gallery and the Small Gallery. This series contains files from the University Art Galleries concerning all the art exhibitions shown by the Art Galleries…
Arthur Stanton Adams was born on July 1, 1896 in Winchester, Massachusetts. He received degrees from Norwich University, The University of California and the Colorado School of Mines. He served as president of UNH from June of 1948 through 1950. The Papers of Arthur Stanton Adams cover the years 1948 to 1950. Materials include NH Legislature activity on Communist Activity Investigation, trustee meetings, and religion.
Arthur Borror is a professor emeritus of Zoology at the University of New Hampshire. He began teaching at UNH in 1961 and taught a variety of classes from introductory biology to advanced honors course in marine biology. This collection is made of notebooks containing field notes and class planning from Arthur Borror’s summers programs at the Shoals Marine Laboratory on Appledore Island.
This scrapbook was created by Arthur Eastman Twaddle while he was a student at New Hampshire College. He graduated with a B.A. in Engineering in 1921. Eastman married Ruth Carolyn McQuesten, also a graduate of New Hampshire College. She graduated in 1920 with a B.S. in Arts. Both Twaddle and McQuesten were from Manchester, New Hampshire. This scrapbook contains items relating to the years spent at New Hampshire College by Arthur Eastman Twaddle and his future wife Ruth Carolyn McQuesten. There…
This scrapbook was created by Arthur Grant Davis from Peterborough, NH, Class of 1912. He received a B.S. in Agriculture and was very active in campus activities. He was a member of Gamma Theta, Alpha Zeta and the Rifle Team. He served as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Agricultural Club and was the assistant editor of the 1912 Granite yearbook. He played Class Baseball and Football and participated in the Cane Rush. This scrapbook contains items relating to the time Arthur Grant Davis spent at…
Arthur F. Nesbit recieved his A.B. degree from Lafayette College in 1892; B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1895 and A.M., Lafayette College in 1895. He served as head of the combined Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering at New Hampshire College from 1895 to 1908. When the two fields were separated, he taught physics until he left the college in 1912.
Arthur H. Reynolds enlisted in 1936 in the NH National Guard and enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1940, ending up in Manila in the Philippines. After the surrender of the US and Filipino forces in 1942, Reynolds was prisoner in P.O.W. camps for nearly four years, suffering from malnutrition, beriberi, malaria, and dysentery without proper medical treatment. After the war, Reynolds went on to serve twenty years in…
