Papers, 1902-1973

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...

Silver, Arthur E., 1879-

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Arthur E. Silver was born at Silvers Mills, Maine in 1879 in the town named for his grandfather Silver. He was graduated from the University of Maine, class of 1902, with a B.S. degree. He received his doctor of engineering (an honorary degree) from the University of Maine in 1954. In 1951 he was the recipient of the Lamme gold medal award given by the American Institute of Engineering which was in recognition of his pioneering of rural electrification by designing a simplified farm-type transfo...

University of Maine. Class of 1902.

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