War records, 1917-1945.

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War records, 1917-1945.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53957530

Collection contains correspondence, 1917-1918, of university president Robert J. Aley and registrar James A. Gannett with students serving in the military as well as correspondence of the alumni association in its effort to raise funds for a memorial building to be erected on campus. Biographical information about each student killed in the war is also found in the collection. Collection also contains correspondence, 1942-1945, of university president Arthur Hauck with students in the military, lists of students and alumni who served, copies of the volume "University of Maine, World War II: In Memoriam" and biographical information used to compile this volume. A card file for those who were called or recalled to service in the Korean War is also included.

4 record cartons + 2 document boxes.

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7673847

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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University of Maine. General Alumni Association.

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Dr. Lloyd H. Elliott was president of the University of Maine from 1958 to 1965. He was an honorary member of the Class of 1962. The members of the class raised money for a portrait and commissioned Bjorn Egeli, a Norwegian-born American portrait painter, to paint his portrait. It was unveiled at a ceremony in 1966 and hung in the Joseph P. Bass Room of the Raymond H. Fogler Library. From the description of Lloyd H. Elliott portrait records, 1965-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: ...

University of Maine Alumni Association

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Gannett, James Adrian.

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Hauck, Arthur Andrew, 1893-

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University of Maine

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The University of Maine saw approximately 1,000 students and alumni serve in World War I and 3,900 serve in World War II. Both wars had a strong effect on the university and its students; the desire to honor those who had served and to memorialize those who had died led to various activities on campus. After the end of World War I, funds were raised to erect the Memorial Gymnasium and Armory and after World War II, those who had died were honored in a volume titled "University of Maine, World Wa...

Aley, Robert J. (Robert Judson), 1863-1935

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