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Collection Category: Westbrook College History

Office of the President records, 1965-1987

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Collection Scope and Content

The Office of the President records include correspondence, reports, and subject files maintained in the presidents office 1965-1987. The collection includes records filed during the terms of Presidents Dickinson, Courtice, and Andrews.

Harrison S. Whitman collection

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Collection Scope and Content

The contents of this collection reflect Reverend Harrison S. Whitman’s dedication to his faith, as well as to his friends and family, the Seminary, and his private ventures. The Letters, Writings, Photographs, and Memorabilia series includes a wide range of materials, including typed and handwritten correspondence, tax documentation from the state, handwritten notes in ledgers, and photographs. This series focuses on Rev. Whitman’s private and professional life, including his time presiding over Westbrook Seminary and his relationships, both between friends and family. The Westbrook College series includes administrative and historical documents, financial records, fundraising documents, and writings by Rev. Whitman. The Orange Grove series includes documents pertaining to Rev. Whitman’s ownership of an orange grove in Limona, Florida including correspondence between Rev. Whitman and W. J. Lewis, who operated the orange grove for Rev. Whitman; and letters from others regarding the orange grove.

Biographical/Historical Note

Reverend Harrison S. Whitman was born in 1844. After a career as a Unitarian minister, Rev. Whitman became the 19th President of Westbrook Seminary (later Westbrook College). He presided over the Westbrook Seminary from 1892 to 1899. Rev. Whitman lived in Mechanic Falls prior to becoming President of Westbrook Seminary and provided ministry services while living there. During his Presidency, and later as Treasurer in the 1920’s, Rev. Whitman organized and assisted with a great deal of fundraising for the college. Following his time as President, Rev. Whitman purchased a plot of land in Limona, Florida, upon which he operated an orange grove. Harrison S. Whitman died in 1932 at age 88.

Lucy Morros, Dean of the College records

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Large collection of records from The Academic Computer Center, 1983-1985, The American Council on Education/National Identification Program (ACE/NIP), Board of Trustees, 1980-1986 budget, continuing education programs, and Faculty Sentate.

Richard Bond, Dean of the College records

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Collection Scope and Content

The Dean of the College, Richard Bond records are made up of Alphabetically arranged subject files dating from 1940 to 1980, bulk 1960-1980. Files include correspondence, memoranda, reports, and meeting minutes.

Biographical/Historical Note

Dean Richard Bond, 1917-2012, was a native of Portland, Maine. He was appointed Director of Admissions and Professor of English Literature at Westbrook College in 1953. In 1956 he became Acting Dean of the College and in 1957 Dean of the College. Aside from his work in the Westbrook College administration Dean Bond was an accomplished writer and poet.

Ronald Morrison, Associate Dean of the College records

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Records, programs, class schedules, and other documents from 1976-1988.

Dean of Students, Mary Lou Kiley, Women’s Studies records

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Collection Scope and Content

Publications and documents on Women’s rights in the workplace and in higher education.

Faculty collection, 1878-1996

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Handbooks, Faculty Senate by-laws and meeting records, committee records, correspondance, member lists and other records and ephemera.

Bradford Dudley Daziel collection, 1975-1996

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The Bradford D. Daziel collection primarily contains items related to the memorial service on November 19, 1994 for Professor Daziel including photographs of the AIDS quilt constructed by students, Memorial Service guestbook, VHS tape of the memorial service, memorial service ephemera, photographs and an “In Memoriam album.” Also included in the collection is Prof. Daziel’s Ph.D. thesis “The Sentence in Itself Beautiful: A Study of Virginia Woolf’s Mannerist Fiction” dated 1975.