Faculty & Personnel
- Radcliffe B. Pike (1903-1979) was a professor of botany at the University of New Hampshire. The Radcliffe Pike Papers consist of a single folder of correspondence dated 1969-1971, and three undated field notebooks.
- Albion Reed Hodgdon (1909-1976) was a botany professor and head of the Botany Department at the University of New Hampshire from 1936-1974. He conducted extensive botanical research in New England and Maritime Canada and was responsible for the considerable expansion of the UNH Herbarium. The…
- Alfred Linn Bogle (1931-2012) was professor of plant biology at the University of New Hampshire. The A. Linn Bogle Papers (1950-1992) consist of Bogle's graduate and post-graduate research materials, particularly into the petasite (coltsfoot) genus and hamamelidaceae (witch-hazel) family.
- Donald Morison Murray (1924-2007) was a Pulitzer Prize winnning journalist, writing teacher, and newspaper columnist. He was a veteran of WWII, professor of the University of New Hampshire, and husband of Minnie Mae (Emmerich) Murray (1920-2005).…
- University Archives"The Mission of Finance and Administration is to provide expert support to the President and to develop, implement, and continuously improve upon the best practices and highest quaility services for students, faculty, and staff that enable and enhance…
- University ArchivesThe UNH Costume Collection was used as a teaching tool in the Home Economics department Letters acknowledging gifts to the UNH Costume Collection.
- University ArchivesGilbert Davenport taught costume and set design courses at the University of New Hampshire from 1962 until 1996.
- University ArchivesUNH English professor, William Hennessy directed the theater productions produced by the Mask and Dagger Honorary Drama Society from 1923 until he retired in 1943. This collection contains the files of the Mask and Dagger productions he directed.
- University ArchivesFor 22 years, Dick Merritt was both instructor in the arts and university photographer at UNH. This is a collection of letters written by Richard Merritt to Drew Sanborn.
- University ArchivesRev. James Hill Fitts was born in Candia, NH on March 3, 1825. He died Nov. 22, 1900 Catalog of Native America (sic Indian) relics donated to NHC in 1896.
- University ArchivesThe Botany Department was part of the curriculum of the Agriculture devision of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. This history was developed by the departmental review team, 1971.
- University ArchivesMildred Helen McAfee Horton (1900-1994) served on the University of New Hampshire's Board of Trustees from 1963-1974, and was the Board's Chair from 1972-1974. Previously she had been the first director of the US Navy's WAVES program, and after UNH…
- University ArchivesWhittemore School Faculty Meetings
- University ArchivesIn 1992, reconstituted Task Force was renamed the UNH Planning Council; to be maintained for as long as deemed helpful and appropriate.
- University ArchivesTeaching 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.
- University ArchivesThelma 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…
- University ArchivesThe Art Division of the Library was opened April 1939. The scrapbook of art division information was compiled by George R. Thomas.
- University ArchivesAnthony Caldwell was on the faculty of the UNH English Department from 1957-1977. This is a draft of his play titled The Good Minute.
- University ArchivesAnn 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
- University ArchivesJames Horrigan led a distinguished career as a Professor of Accounting and Finance. He taught at Notre Dame from 1956 to 1966, and then at the University of New Hampshire for 30 years until his retirement in 1996. Teaching and community files of…
- University ArchivesFiles cards containing biographical and employment history of former CEPS faculty.
- University ArchivesThe New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was established in 1866. In 1911, a major reorganization of the entire institution took place. Three divisions were established: the Agricultural Division, the Engineering Division and the…
- University ArchivesComposer John E. Rogers was an early pioneer in electronic music and dodecaphony. He studied with Milton Babbitt, Elliot Carter, and Robert Sessions, and established the computer music department at the University of New Hampshire in 1967. The John…
- University ArchivesJean Brierley (1908-1986) graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1930 with a baccalaureate degree in Zoology. The first Brierley Award was presented in 1991 to Lester A. Fisher of the Department of English. In the years since then each winner of the…
- University ArchivesThe Office of Academic Affairs spearhead the university's progress in academic programming, faculty development, and student academic affairs. These files contain support materials for the 1983 University Accreditation process, minutes and reports…
- University ArchivesZoology professor, C. Floyd Jackson was appointed the first university health officer in 1920, but until 1932 students were expected to look out for their own health needs. In 1931, Charles H. Hood, Class of 1880, presented the university with $125,…
- University ArchivesFrank McCann, Ph.D., Indiana U., Bloomington, is a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Hampshire. His research focuses on Brazilian and Spanish-American history, U.S. relations with Latin America, and native peoples of the Americas…
- University ArchivesThe Faculty Council functioned within the university senate to serve the president in an advisory capacity, to serve as an executive committee for the consideration of urgent matters arising between meetings of the senate, to consider and act upon all matters referred to or delegated to it by the…
- University ArchivesFrank W. Rane was a Professor of Horticulture at UNH between 1896-1905. This series contains four volumes of carbon copied letters written by Frank W. Rane, Professor of horiticulture (1896-1905) concerning the business of running the Dept. of Horticulture.
- University ArchivesThis series contains the daily time reports for each member of the University staff involved in the Clerical Time Study. This study was conducted in April 1940. In these reports, each staff member has recorded their tasks and activities thereby…
- University ArchivesThis series contains files maintained by the Office of the President. After Dale Nitzschke resigned, two people served as interim president: Thomas Fairchild (1994-95) and Walter Peterson (1995-96)
- University ArchivesThe Affirmative Action Office reports directly to the President on all matters relating to the diversity of the university. This collection, compiled by the Affirmative Action Office, contains documents significant to the university's diversity…
- University ArchivesIn 1985, Gov. John Sununu signed into law a bill making the Merrimack Valley College the sixth college of the University of New Hampshire. The University of New Hampshire at Manchester (UNHM) provides access to UNH associate, bachelor and graduate…
- University ArchivesProfessor Clarence W. Scott worked for the University for 54 years. He served as first librarian of the college, instuctor and professor of English, 1878-1886, and professor of history and political science, 1879-1930. A short time before his death, Dr. Scott had undertaken the writing of a history…
- University ArchivesThe University of New Hamsphire Library records date back to the first catalog of books belonging to the New Hampshire state college. This collection chronicles the Library's growth through correspondence, records, minutes of meetings, acquisitions,…
- University ArchivesThe Arts and Sciences Division was formed in 1893 and was renamed the College of Liberal Arts in 1923. This series contains the minutes for the faculty meetings of the College of Liberal Arts.
- University ArchivesThe Committee on Academic Programs and Teaching Methods was a committee of the Faculty Council. This series contains the records of the Committee on Academic Programs and Teaching Methods of the University of New Hampshire.
- University ArchivesDuring WWII, the US Department of Agriculture turned to the public for assistants to find mature milkweed pods to provide fiber for filling life jackets. Farmers were asked not to mow the roadsides and fields where the plants (long regarded by them as…
- University ArchivesThe Faculty Tennis Club began in 1894 at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. The Club was for the male members of the teaching staff at the College. This collection holds the records of the Club.
- University ArchivesJoan R. Leitzel earned her bachelor's degree from Hanover College in 1958, her master's degree from Brown University in 1961, and her doctorate from Indiana University in 1965, all in mathematics. Dr. Leitzel was appointed seventeenth president of the…
- University ArchivesThe UNH President's Commission on the Status of Women was established February 15, 1972, to explore conditions and attitudes within the University of New Hampshire, relating to the mobility and functional equality of women, and to encourage movement…
- University ArchivesThis series contains the report made by Raymond Osgood Kendall (MA 1930) concerning the correlation of aptitude tests and intelligence tests. He used the Iowa Placement Tests in English and Mathematics and the Psychological Examination taken by students entering the University of New Hampshire in…
- University ArchivesThe minutes of the meetings of the faculty of the NHCAMA were recorded by secretaries, C. H. Harrison, 1906-1908; E. R. Groves, 1908-1911; Mabel Hodgkins, 1911-1914; Florence Trimmer, 1914-1915; and Conda J. Ham, 1915-1916. They include printed materials pasted and laid in.
- University ArchivesCharlotte K. Anderson worked for the University of New Hampshire Library for 37 years. She was hired as a reader consultant in 1943, but quickly assumed the duties of the documents librarian. In 1946, she was promoted to assistant librarian and held that position until she retired in 1980. This…
- University ArchivesThis series contains the minutes of the meetings of the Executive Committee for the College of Liberal Arts. Included are discussions of curriculum changes and petitions from students.
- University ArchivesThe New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was incorporated in 1866 by the state legislature as was one of the early land-grant institutions of public higher education established under the Morrill Act. Orignally located in Hanover, NH, it was removed to Durham in 1893 and…
- University ArchivesThe School of Health and Human Services was established as the Division of Health Studies in 1969. The following year it was renamed the School of Health Studies. In 1990, it was reorganized as the School of Health and Human Services. Prior to 1969 health studies courses were part of the College of…
- University ArchivesIn 1990, Roger S. Brown, Associate Professor of German, filed a civil rights lawsuit against the state university system complaining that his constitutional right of free speech and due process were violated when Nancy Lukens, the department chairman…
- University ArchivesRalph Dorn Hetzel graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1906. He taught English and public speaking at Oregon State College and became a full professor there in 1910. In 1912 he was asked to organize a political science department and in 1913 was made the director of the extension services…
- University ArchivesThe Professional, Administrative and Technical (PAT) Staff Council, established in 1975 as a standing council of the UNH administration, serves the president in an informational and advisory capacity, provides for the election of staff senators, and recommends staff personnel policies. It also…
