Records, 1897-1977.

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Records, 1897-1977.

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The records of a social club of male faculty members. Included are 4 ledgers and 1 folder of minutes (1897-1977); histories of the club; constitutions (1897, 1905, 1977 (proposed)); letters concerning the 50th anniversary in 1947; lists of members and lists of discussion topics; correspondence. Also included are a newspaper clipping about the Niben Club of Bangor and a pamphlet about the 75th anniversary Phi Kappa Phi triennial meeting, University of Maine, 1971.

8 folders.

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Conversation Club (Orono, Me.)

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The Conversation Club at the University of Maine in Orono began in 1897 when University of Maine President Abram W. Harris and Charles D. Woods, Professor of Agriculture and Director of the Experiment Station, decided that the university needed a club modeled on the Conversation Club they had belonged to at Wesleyan University. Both had served on the Wesleyan faculty, and a faculty Conversation Club had been in existence there since 1862. On April 6, 1897, Harris and Woods met with ten other fac...

Niben Club of Bangor, Maine.

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University of Maine

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