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The Starkeys were farmers and school teachers in West Swanzey, New Hampshire, in the middle of the nineteenth century. After the firing on Fort Sumter, the family sent two of its men to join the Union cause in the Civil War. Isaac and his nephew Elmer fought in many of the Army of the Potomac's early battles, including those of the first and second Bull Run campaigns and McClellan's Peninsula campaign. Both were…

This series consists of one pamphlet containing the address given by Congressman Justin S. Morrill in the Vermont State House of Representatives. Senator Morrill discusss his role in the creation of the Land-Grant Colleges and their success.

Members of the Sterns Family of Epping NH included: Rev. Josiah Stearns (1732-1788), wife Sarah (Ruggles) Stearns (1731-1808), their son Rev. Samuel Stearns (1770-1834), Jonathan Stearns of Andover, MA, and Ebenezer S. Stearns. Also included is Jonathan French (1690-1760). The Stearns Family papers collection primarily contains the papers of Reverend Josiah Stearns, 1732-1788, pastor of the church in Epping, N.H…

Stephen H. Boomer received a bachelor's degree in forestry from NHCAMA in 1921. He was an instructor in forestry at UNH for two years prior to becoming the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's blister rust control officer for Carroll County. He worked for the USDA from 1923 to 1959. He lived in North Conway for 30 years prior to moving to Center Ossipee in 1959 where he was self-employed as a land surveyor. He died Dec. 23, 1989 at age 95. This series contains some notebooks and papers he kept from his…

The Stevens family of Meredith, New Hampshire consisted of Ebenezer Stevens (1810-1901), his first Therina P. Osgood (1811-1845) and their three children, and his second wife Cassandra Swansey (1818-1901) and their daughter Alice Swansey Stevens (1849-1937). The Stevens Family Diaries consist of four daybooks from Ebenezer Stevens's general store dated 1858-1863 and three diaries kept by Cassandra Stevens dated 1866…

In 1757, the first Stevens (Joshua, 1737-1816) settled in Nottingham, New Hampshire and for over one-hundred and fifty years the family occupied the same land. Town and local histories provide little information about the lives of the first three generations of family members, but these records suggest that they were farmers. In 1827, Daniel Barber (b. 1803), a third generation Stevens, married Betsey M. Butler (d…

Patrick Stevens (1953-2007) was an architect by trade, and one of the leaders of New Hampshire's Seacoast dance scene during the 1980s-2000s. He was a prolific dance photographer, caller, and organizer of such influential ongoing events as the Star Hampshire Traditional Music and Dance Weekend on the Isle of Shoals. The Patrick Stevens Collection contains organizational records for the Star Hampshire Dance Weekend,…

Arthur G. Davis (Class of 1912) was asked to give presentation on the history of UNH to the Northam Colonists (now the Dover Historical Society, Dover, NH) in Sept. 1970. This folder contains two copies of the story; one in long-hand and a typed copy. It briefly covers the highlights of the university's first 104 years and eleven presidents.

This series contains issues of the leaflet Strike Daily which was produced by students at the University of New Hampshire during the student strike in the spring of 1970. The leaflets give information on how to get involved in anti-war work and reports national news concerning similar strikes on campuses across the country.

Professor Stuart Dunn worked for the University of New Hampshire from 1926 to 1970. He taught courses in plant physiology in the Department of Botany and at the Agricultural Experiment Station. He wrote a text book and lab manual in 1949 entitled Elementary Plant Physiology. This series contain the files kept by Stuart Dunn during his career at the University of New Hampshire. Included is general correspondence, …

SAFO provides funding to 200+ student organizations on the UNH campus, which in turn supports a wide array of student-sponsored programming. This collection consists of budget and financial reports, handbooks, and agendas related to the use and distribution of the money collected through the Student Activity Fee.

This series contains the minutes for the meetings, agendas, and addendums of the Board of Trustees' Student Affairs Committee, and the Board of Trustees' Student Affairs Subcommittee.

To meet military needs for skilled technicians in World War I, the U.S. War Department organized eight week courses to be given on college campuses throughout the country. The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was one of the first to offer this training. A committee was appointed by President Hetzel to take charge of what came to be known as the Student Army Training Corps (S.A.T.C.). Dean…

The Student Committee on Educational Policy (SPEC) was composed of 18 members of the student body with the goal of improving student-faculty relations. Gathering complaints and comments from the students, as well as feedback from faculty advisors, they submitted their report to the administration. Though interested in overall improvements, they admitted that student-faculty relations were highly dependent on the individuals involved. This series contains an extract from the 1945 SCEP Report …

The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was founded in Hanover, NH in 1866. The college moved to Durham, NH in 1893 and became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. This series contains the minutes for the Executive Committee of the Student Government at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. During the years 1922-1924, the Executive Committee dealt mostly with the rules for female students at the school.

John D. Fleming, Class of 1929 conducted this survey of the service of former New Hampshire College students in World War I. The survey was one page long and asked questions pertaining to the nature of military service of each participant. The survey was conducted in 1929 and a report was presented to Professor Babcock which contained the results. This series contains surveys returned by New Hampshire College students with information pertaining to their military service in World War I. Also…

The Student Organizations Committee is a standing committee of the UNH Administration reporting to the Vice President of Student Affairs. This series contains the files of the Student Organizations Committee.

The radio station WMDR was formed in 1930 as the Mike and Dial Club by UNH students from the Speech and Drama Department. It evolved into WUNH in 1972. This series contains the results of a survey conducted for the radio station WMDR-FM in Durham, NH. The purpose of the survey was to determine the program preferences of students.

This series contains the results of the student questionaire conducted in 1930 on the course of study at UNH. It includes student evaluations of deparmental courses and policies.

The Student Senate of the University of New Hampshire serves as an advocate for all undergraduate students, deriving its power from the consent of the governed. This series contains the records of the UNH Student Senate.

The creator of this scrapbook is unidentified, but was possibly a student at the College during the events. The scrapbook consists of local newspaper clippings covering the 1912 strike over William H. Brackett's suspension, as well as other aspects of college life such as curricula, funding, animal husbandry, sports, budget, and the 1912 name change to New Hampshire College.

The Student Television Network began as the Student Videotape Network in 1974. The purpose of the STVN was to provide interested students with an opportunity to gain practical and educational experience with small format television. The STVN attempted to provide UNH with quality television centering on activities on campus and campus topics. This series contains tapes of various STVN programs. The tapes are in various formats -- reel-to-reel and early videotapes -- which may need special…

The Student Television Network began as the Student Videotape Network in 1974. The purpose of the STVN was to provide interested students with an opportunity to gain practical and educational experience with small format television. The STVN attempted to provide UNH with quality television centering on activities on campus and campus topics. This series contains the STVN Constitution, clippings, equipment inventories and other records relating to the STVN. Also included are 3/4 inch tapes of…

This series contains one issue of a newsletter produced by the group Students for Open Debate at the University of New Hampshire. The group and its publication was intended as an organized alternative to the newsletter "Strike Daily" that was produced at the same time (see collection UA 18/7/9).

The Society of American Foresters was founded in 1900 by Gifford Pinchot and is the largest society for professional foresters in the world. This booklet contains the Program of Field Excursions taken during the summer meeting of the Society of American Foresters New England Section which was hosted at UNH.

Surry is a New Hampshire town in Cheshire county with a 15.9 square mile area, incorporated in 1769. Contains town meeting notices, highway tax lists, receipts, treasury reports, and school accounts.

Susan Wilbur Jones, wife of Llewellyn Jones, a former literary editor of the Chicago Evening Post and later editor of the Christian Register, a magazine associated with the Unitarian Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, took short-story writing courses from May Sarton at Radcliffe College. The majority of the material relates to the seminar on the short story taught by May Sarton at Radcliffe College in 1956-1957 and taken by Mrs. Susan W. Jones. There are two short stories written as coursework…

Harold Caswell Sweetser, son of John P. Sweetser, who was born May 19, 1897 in Portsmouth, N.H. He was employed as a Helper General at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in May of 1917 and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1918. After enlisting in the army in 1918 he eventually worked his way up to Supervising Naval Architect by his 1958 retirement. The Sweetser Collection contains the personal papers of …

The Sports Information Office is responsible for the gathering and dissemination of all UNH sports information through-out the nation. The first men's varsity swim team was formed in 1968, with women's swim given varsity status in 1971-1972. The two teams were merged under one coach in 1987-1988. This series contains the records of the University of New Hampshire Swim and Dive Team compiled by the Sports Information…

This series contains photographs of the University of New Hampshire Swim and Dive Team. Included are prints, negatives and contact sheets. This series is arranged chronologically. For further information on the Swim and Dive Team see series UA 16/1/2

Sylvester Bingham (1901-1981) was a graduate of Dartmouth College, studied at Harvard Law School, earned a master’s degree from Harvard University and the Ph.D. from Yale University. He joined the faculty at the University of New Hampshire in 1936 and taught English Literature until his retirement in 1970. He chaired the department for 21 of those years. Bingham died on November 4, 1981. He was 80 years old. This…

The Teen Assessment Project (TAP) is a multifaceted, community-based research and education program designed to help youth by helping parents, schools, youth-serving agencies and community leaders better support youth development. This collection contains the reports of the TAP survey results from the New Hampshire School Districts between May 1993 and June 2003.

Delta Sigma Chi local fraternity was founded at the University of New Hampshire in 1929. It was installed as the Alpha Nu chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon national fraternity in 1932. This series contains files from the Greek Advisor's Office pertaining to the history and activities of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at the University of New Hampshire.

Marianne Taylor (1930-2008) was a dance leader and caller from New England. She taught English, Scottish, Contra, and International Folk styles, and was heavily involved in dance organizations such as the Folk Arts Center of New England (co-founder), Pinewoods Dance Camp, Stockton/Pacific Folk Dance Camp, and the Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend. Marianne was an accomplished dance pianist. This collection consists of…

The Office of Institutional Research collects statistical information about the University of New Hampshire. At the end of each semester, students are given the opportunity to evaluate the teaching methods of their instructors. These evaluations are then compiled into report form by the Office of Institutional Research.

Teaching Excellence was a one page newsletter containing an article that was reproduced with permission from Teaching Excellence, a member service of the POD Network in Higher Education.

This series contains issues of the periodic newsletter produced by the Teaching and Learning Council at the University of New Hampshire. Its purpose was to look more closely at how people teach and learn and report University activities relating to this topic.

This series contains photos of the Men's and Women's Tennis Teams at the University of New Hampshire. Records, preograms, etc. are also available, filed under UA 16/1/10.

This series contains the records of the University of New Hampshire Men's and Women's Tennis Teams.

The Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) was an industrial union of textile workers established through the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1939. It waged a decades-long campaign to organize J.P. Stevens and other Southern textile manufacturers. In the 1960s and 1970s the TWUA found itself in competition with other unions for representation in large Southern plants and in 1976, the TWUA merged with…

Ruth G. Stimson graduated from UNH in 1940 with a degree in Home Economics. She joined the Cooperative Extension as a Home Demonstration Agent-at-Large. Shortly after, she was assigned to the Rockingham County Office where she worked until she retired in 1982. In this volume, Ruth Stimson has complied a history of the Rockingham County Extension Home Economics Program using biographical and career information of the women who served as volunteer leaders.

Theater Resourcess for Youth, or Project TRY, was started by Professor Joseph Batcheller of the University of New Hampshire. The aim of Project TRY was to introduce elementary school children in New Hampshire to live theater. It also provided support for theater groups wanting to put on productions for children. The records for Theater Resourcess for Youth include applications from schools in New Hampshire…

Thelma Brackett served the state of New Hampshire as both the state librarian (1931-1942) and the head librarian at the University of New Hampshire (1942-1962). This series contains Thelma Brackett's correspondence, articles written by Thelma, and photographs which were collected by Jane Kaufman, who complied them into a brief biography.

Thelma B. Thompson (b. 1948, MLS University of Iowa 1985) served as Government Information and Maps Librarian at the University of New Hampshire's Dimond Library beginning in 1999. One of her many contributions was extensive work with the historical topographical maps of New England and New York which were scanned and made available through the library's website. She retired in 2014. Two boxes of correspondence, proceedural notes, and materials generated in the process of scanning and making…

Theodore Russell Lovejoy from Conway, NH attended the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts from 1916-1920 but did not graduate. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH before entering New Hampshire College. While at college he earned his letters in football, was a member of the N.H. Club and of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity. This scrapbook was compiled by Theodore Russell Lovejoy. It contains mementos from his time as a student at the New Hampshire College of…

The Delta Xi local fraternity was established at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in 1903. It became the Zeta chapter of Theta Chi national fraternity in 1910. This group lost permanent recognition from the University of New Hampshire for various policy violations in the early 1990s. The group also lost recognition from Theta Chi in 1993. This series contains files from the Greek…

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) was a New Hampshire-born author, poet and editor. His most noteable works are The Story of a Bad Boy and An Old Town By The Sea. Letter written by Thomas Bailey Aldrich in 1904 to Reverend John M. Milson that promises him a copy of the poem “Two Moods.” Included is Aldrich’s signed and undated, holograph copy of “Two Moods.”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a New Hampshire-born author, poet and editor. Hist most noteable works are The Story of a Bad Boy and An Old Town By The Sea. Two letters written by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. One letter describes some of his works in progress; the other, written from the office of the Atlantic Monthly, requests the portraits of several people from Arthur Stedman. Also included is a holograph copy of the first and last stanzas of the poem “On Lynn Terrace,” an engraved portrait of Aldrich,…

Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a New Hampshire-born author, poet and editor. His most noteable works are The Story of a Bad Boy and An Old Town By The Sea. Four letters written by Thomas Bailey Aldrich to his good friend and his wife’s obstetrician, Dr. Israel Tisdale Talbot. The letters are personal in nature. In one, dated September 18, 1868, Aldrich informs Talbot that he named his youngest son Talbot Bailey…

Thomas C. Cheney (1831-1900) was born in Derry, New Hampshire to Sally and Lyman King Cheney. Cheney enlisted as a private in the First N.H. Volunteer Light Battery, participating in virtually every major battle of the Army of the Potomac. The Thomas Carleton Cheney collection consists of 55 letters written between 1851-1885, with the bulk of them being between 1861 and 1664, four diaries from 1861 to 1864, a small…