Administrative Records of Albany College (Oregon) Acting President, Benjamin A. Thaxter 1941-1942
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Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Or.)
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In 2000 the Lewis & Clark College Special Collections department began curating exhibits in the Aubrey R. Watzek Library. In addition to curating the exhibits, Special Collections began issuing promotional and explanatory materials including brochures, catalogs, and flyers to support the exhibits. In 2005 the Special Collection initiated a Watzek Library Poetry Reading series. To support these reading the Special Collections designed and printed poetry broadsides for each reader...
Thaxter, Benjamin A., 1873-1964
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Benjamin A. Thaxter was a native of Maine who had earned a BA and an MA in literature at Yale. Thaxter taught in New England and Missouri before accepting a job as an English instructor for Oregon's Portland Academy in 1906. In 1912, Thaxter was hired as the principal of Portland Public School District's Chapman School, and later at the Couch Street school. In 1939, Albany College hired Thaxter as professor of English and Dean of the College. In 1941, while Albany College was in the...
Albany College (Albany, Or.)
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The first literary society at Albany College was a men's organization called Sigma Phi organized in the fall of 1867. Sigma Phi had the responsibility of managing the College's library, which was donated to the College by the city of Albany's Library and Literary Institute. In 1880 Sigma Phi re-organized under the new name, Albany College Literary Society. For a short time in the early 1880s, the Albany College Literary Society merged with Albany's women's literary society, the Erodelphians. The...
